Being a mom is more labor intensive, time intensive, and emotion intensive than I ever thought possible. When I sit up long hours in the middle of the night feeding Annalise, praying I won’t drop her because I am so very tired, I love her all the more. When I lie in bed crying because […]
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The guest post I promised, from Mary Burkholder, author of My Other Name Is Mom. *** Something happened to me thirteen years ago that changed my life forever. I had a baby, and he made me a mother. When I was a little girl, I loved babies. I was irresistibly drawn to their tiny, perfect
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My mom is my hero, always has been: the person I still want to be like when I grow up. In honor of Mother’s Day, here are two things I love about her, traits I want to imitate if I ever have children of my own. She never scolded when I broke things. And that’s
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Recently I published a guest post by Inger DeVries, who struggles deeply with mental illness. Today I share a post by another courageous woman who lives with a different type of chronic illness involving her heart. She asked to be introduced only as HDR. *** Modern medicine didn’t cure me. Treatment followed a few years
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