My little girl kicks energetically in her bouncy seat. Sometimes when she looks at me with her bright smile and trusting eyes, I feel bad and guilty–like I am unworthy of such love. I’m not a perfect mom. I have been struggling with so many feelings of inadequacy since launching Turtle Heart. Not just inadequacy […]
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I haven’t been sleeping well lately. And no, I can’t blame it on Annalise. She has her okay nights and her excellent nights, but generally she lets me have plenty of sleep. Annoyingly, I am doing this to myself. I lie awake nights, trying not to wake Ivan on the bed beside me, thinking about
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She sleeps. I love how she throws her arms up over her head…she makes sleep look sooo good. I love watching her face when she is falling asleep, marvel at how she moves in half a second’s time from a red face, scrunched-up nose, and a mouth wailing her frustration to a look of utter
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Perhaps as part of my nesting instinct during these last weeks of pregnancy–a writers’ version of nesting–I have been attempting to organize and categorize all my old Word documents currently stashed haphazardly on flash drives. Some of what I find is cheesy and lame–me trying to copy other writers I read somewhere and not doing
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New life blooms in my belly. When I panic and worry the life is gone, pretty soon I feel the child moving again. The one thing in the world I am most curious about right now is what the baby looks like. Like me or like Ivan? Other questions soon follow. Will our child be
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