Who we become after a life of growing up, getting married and starting a family
Sometimes I feel like we hear music at the exact times we need to, whether it is a pick me up or something that speaks to the soul. When I find that song, I know that I put it on repeat a thousand times, trying to work through every lyric and every feeling I have. [...]
We live in this world where we are taught to make everything seem perfect on the outside, where strangers shouldn't know if you are having a bad day. Are you depressed, anxiety becoming too much, getting a divorce, having a miscarriage, or unhappy with your life in general? We are supposed to suppress and hide [...]
It's been about a month since I started my new job, and Ainsley started school. Both of us full time and ready to conquer the world, at least in my mind that's how it was gonna go. Well for one thing Ainsley is killing it at daycare, she is thriving, making friends and eating all [...]
It's been a long couple of weeks. I started a new job. Ainsley started daycare. Everything has changed in our house, and it is just exhausting right now. I finally had my big cry about her being in daycare and made it through the first couple of weeks, though it just really hit last night [...]
2020 was a rough one for most of us, it was a year of isolation, fears and hatred. 2020 wasn't any different for me, but I did get one of the biggest blessings in my life and that was my daughter. Although, she hasn't met many people I was able to have so much time [...]
We all have this fantasy about how our lives will turn out, how successful we'll be, and how perfect our marriage and our children are going to turn out. The keyword to all of that is fantasy. No one tells you the hard truths of marriage and kids before you have them. Everyone always says [...]
Now chances are if you talk to 95% of the mothers, you know they will tell you they are not perfect, and they haven't always followed the "rules." This is entirely relatable to me because motherhood is hard, and no one is perfect. Yet, I still can't figure out why motherhood is one of the [...]
After discovering I was pregnant, I was scared, scared I would be a bad mom, scared to give up my life as I knew it, scared my husband wouldn't want the baby. This choice that we made to have a baby, the decision not to use protection, the choices that we didn't know for sure [...]
Growing up, we were always taught to like people or to dislike people based on their character, not the color of their skin. We were raised to have respect for one another and to stand up for the things we believed. We didn't let people bully our friends or us, and we didn't stand down [...]
In March, things were starting to get even more real for us, and our baby was going to be here within two months. We had our shower planned for the first week in March, and little did we know this would be the last time we would be around everyone we love for a while. [...]
