oh, my beautiful boy, you
He’s perfect. And mine. And so me it hurts sometimes. He’s stubborn, relentless, and gloriously confident.
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The Leftovers
It’s the hardest thing I’ve gone through. And just when I think I’m free of it–and back to my regular family history/hormonal depression, thank you very much–the leftovers of it hit me again. The guilt I feel for how I struggled. The worries. The fears.
Read More...Selling Tickets for the Hot Mess Express
I’ve opened this page more times than I can count to write something, anything, about what’s going on in my head, in our world, in my house, in my state, whatever.
Read More...Mini-Me
However, while G was “working out” with me, he would quit, and say, “I can’t do this.” “I fell down, I can’t do it anymore.” “I don’t feel good.” And it broke my heart, because I know exactly where he heard those things.
Read More...Restless Souls Unite
The line from Hamilton comes to mind, “Will I ever be satisfied?”
Read More...Ten Year Challenge
So yeah, bring it 29.
Read More...To My Boys
My children are three and three months, so obviously they don’t understand, they just know maybe mom isn’t there as much as she normally is, especially G. He’s more cognizant of it. If I could tell them anything, I would tell them something like this…
Read More...What If…
What if I just…ran away?
Read More...Definitions
I don’t think we’re so easily defined. I think life is so much more complicated, and we’re an ever-evolving sum of a variety of things. There’s beauty in that chaos.
Read More...Breastfeeding: Stigma, Success, and Failure?
Does it affect you and yours? No? Then shut the fuck up.
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