“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.” – Mooji I feel like I should be starting this post, “Dear diary.” Because the vomit that I’m about to spew out onto the page is very deep, personal, and raw. It’s not a side of me that I really like to admit exists, much less […]

“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss Like so many moments over the course of the last four months, I was sitting in my daughter’s nursery the other evening, nursing her in her rocking chair. I was stroking her hair and marveling at […]

I have just about a million blog post ideas just waiting in the wings to write about. Ok, maybe not a million. It’s probably more like ten. Maybe fifteen. Pretty close to a million, if you ask me. But in the last week and a half, anytime I have tried to sit down to write […]

I wrote this post at nine weeks postpartum after delivering my sweet baby girl. I am now twelve and a half weeks postpartum, and am still a work in progress. Everything I wrote here still rings true. This post is for any woman who not only has ever given birth, but also, for every woman […]

Every mother has a labor story (and often, more than one). I heard at least 50 of them throughout my pregnancy, and probably a lot more before I ever even got pregnant. But I wasn’t listening. I mean, I was listening. Or rather, I was hearing the words without really listening, you know what I […]

This post was written a few hours before I went into labor with my daughter. I could not know the labor that was to come (or that I would go into labor soon after), nor could I know how madly in love I would fall with my beautiful Madison Grace when she finally uttered her […]