Over on Babble this week, I shared my thoughts on being a young mom of four kids-and how for me, young motherhood has not meant my life has been a failure, or even more of a struggle. Maybe I’m the exception, but I doubt it. The true “success” of motherhood-at any age-means believing in yourself,…
Unplanned Pregnancy
Your Lines: Melissa Cohen
Melissa is one of my favorite bloggers. Although we’ve never met “IRL,” I feel like we’ve somehow known each other forever. Plus, I feel a special pride in watching Melissa’s writing career grow and blossom, because she was a student in my first online freelance writing class. (*puffs chest with pride*) Be sure to stop…
Your Lines: Bryn’s Unplanned Pregnancy Story
Part of a series of young mom and unplanned pregnancy stories, Your Lines, I give you Bryn of With Her Own Wings: When my daughter was about 9 months old my husband and I were living with her and our 100 pound Bernese Mountain Dog in a Fifth Wheel RV. We had just sold all…
A Young Mom Q&A and A Book Giveaway!
Sometimes, I look back on how far I’ve come from this blog’s beginning and I am so, so incredibly grateful. I love where I am in this journey to becoming a writer and I pray every day that this dream doesn’t disappear on me, because I truly love what I do. And of course, as…
Win a Free Copy of Tiny Blue Lines From The Grace Bond
Want to know what my favorite part about writing my book has been? Hearing the reactions of real-life young moms who have been gracious enough to read and review it. Because it’s one thing to write the book myself and think it’s helpful and practical advice, but it’s another thing completely to hear that other…
The Tiny Blue Lines Book Trailer!
I’m so excited to share the official book trailer for Tiny Blue Lines with you all! My talented videographer brother whipped this up for me and invited me over to watch it without any warning whatsoever. Which, if you know what an emotional pregnant woman I am, you would recognize was a very cruel move…
The Original Young Mom
The other day, I did a radio interview for a Catholic station about my book. (Also, in a related news, talking on the phone alone in my house hoping my cell phone doesn’t give out while simultaneously hoping I don’t sound like a man makes me very nervous…) He fired question after question at me…
An Unplanned Pregnancy Is Not An Unwanted Child
So yesterday was not my best work. Yesterday’s highlight’s included cutting my children’s curling toenails (so gross and also, how do they grow so fast?) and if you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that I somehow managed to kill my kids’ day-old goldfish literally right in front of them. My girls looked…
7 Myths About Unplanned Pregnancy
Call me crazy, but I think that there may be a few misconceptions (ha!) about unplanned pregnancy floating around out there. Perhaps maybe something along the lines of all we’re all poor, uneducated mothers popping out as many kids as we possibly can to milk the system? Yeah. About that. Today, I’m setting out to…
7 Things To Say To A Woman Facing Unplanned Pregnancy
By now, most of us young moms are familiar with the ever-popular snarky comments, judgmental stares, and outright rude treatment from other people towards us and our mothering abilities. And while I still don’t really get why people assume that mothers our age-for most of us, that means early twenties, not even teens-are somehow unusual,…