I remember seeing her, body bent over, towel-drying her hair. The dark strands shaking loose, wet and free. She’d get ready in the bathroom and I would watch her in the way that little girls love to watch their mamas. I was fascinated by the shape of her; content just to stand and study her…
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Passion Meets Practicality
A few weeks ago, I was running while listening to my all-time favorite podcast, Big Magic with Elizabeth Gilbert. (Side note: I just discovered podcasts and am obsessed.) (Side note #2: I just discovered Elizabeth Gilbert and am obsessed.) (Side note #3: If you’re also obsessed with Elizabeth Gilbert and Big Magic, you need to…
My Maternity Photo Shoot
Granted, I realize that my baby has already arrived (birth story coming soon!), I’m still reeling from how fast everything seemed to happen. Honestly, I should still be pregnant, you guys! As I’m playing catch-up-something I’m guessing I will be doing for the next 18 years-I just had to share my maternity pictures, taken of…
DIY Frozen Birthday Party
This weekend marked the annual double birthday celebration for my girls. Born only two days apart, I always struggle with the “right” way to celebrate their birthdays without one feeling left out. Which basically translates into an exhausting weekend of me trying to make sure they both feel special and inevitably, one of them feeling…
Learning To Be Grateful For Motherhood
By now, you may have heard of my horrendously embarrassing segment on Good Morning America. (And if you haven’t, it went something like this: Babble was looking for a mother willing to talk about the issue of rekindling the romance after having a baby, they asked me, and of course, I couldn’t exactly turn that…
The Truth About Unplanned Pregnancy & Young Motherhood
There are times when I worry if I’m being totally unrealistic about this whole unplanned pregnancy and young motherhood thing. Do I really know what I’m talking about? I will think. Am I giving young women a false impression of what motherhood will look for them? It should be noted, that in particular, I often…
I’m Still Here, I Promise
A few days ago, when it was actually warm outside (unlike the blizzardy snowfall that is currently happening outside my window right now, bleeechh), the hubs and I took a long walk with the kiddos. Almost right away, as I am apt to do, apparently, I started complaining. “You know, I’m already dreading the summer…
Overcoming Self-Doubt
This Thursday, I am giving a speech for a local fundraising dinner. It is not my first speech. I’ve given lots of speeches like this one, in fact. In Wisconsin. New York. Boston. Even on Capitol Hill. Different topics, different approaches, and vastly different audiences. And do you want to know the thing that all…
Easter Cross Garland
Today I saw a cop car parked in my next door neighbor’s and as I tried to stealthily pull into my garage without attracting attention, part of me was fighting down panic. Because the way my morning was going with a certain oldest daughter, my neighbor very well could have called the cops on us…
Pictures On A Wall
I walked into the house, the smell of a warm vanilla candle enveloping me as I set the diaper bag down next to a freshly-vaccummed rug. Coats, boots, zippers, the releasing of children occupying me. But I couldn’t pretend I didn’t see it. Right there on the mantle, merely feet away, lined up inconspicuously with…