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The hardest post I’ve ever written, Part 3.

Life works in amazing ways. This is hardest part of the hardest post. And though I've been so overwhelmingly grateful for the outpouring of support, both publicly and privately, that I have received thus far, it is still hard to put all of these things into plain words. This has been a life changing experience to me, ...

I mean…

Not only does this girlie girl insist upon accessorizing, but she even chose to do so with feathers. She's a keeper, she is.

A Date Night

Tonight, my man and I went on a date. A real, honest to goodness date. We traded our ripped jeans and converse sneaks, time constraints and rushed conversations for a dim, cozy seat in a corner booth. And heels. High heels. We went to this place. We sat upstairs at the bar, and together we read every item on the ...

On a February evening,

on a short, chilly walk, my daughter reminded me to always stop to smell the flowers, and I reminded her to always stop to look for feathers.

Muchas Gracias

Just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for the words of support this week, as I cared for our sick baby. RSV is most certainly a Really Sucky Virus. But, we have such a good team. We are so blessed. Thank you. Thank you for the calls, for the emails, sending well wishes and offers to come over and ...

She had her first day.

Today, my daughter had her first day of school. Real, big kid school. I had a hard time believing it. She had her very first backpack. She had a hand-drawn cartoon, made by her daddy, which he tucked, carefully, into her school bag. She had her feathers. She had her first day. She had the time of her life.

About Mommy

Hey there! Hi! Thank you so much for stopping by. You may been here before. Thanks so much for sticking around. But, perhaps you're new here. Perhaps you've wandered these parts before, but you're not sure. Perhaps you need something to jog your memory. Perhaps you're not a newbie, per se, but haven't been here since the beginning. I'm ...

Time travel.

Just the other day, it hit me that it was exactly two years ago this week that we found out that we were expecting. It blows my mind. Two years, it has been? How the hay did that happen? I can still remember exactly how I felt; exactly what the world looked like; exactly what I was wearing, feather earrings ...

When it rains…

The past few weeks have been trying. I have felt overwhelmed. And sometimes lonely. And sometimes scared. It has been hard. For reasons that I have written about on here and for other reasons that I have not. And I have not chosen to share certain things because I like to use this space to express my gratitude, and to talk about ...

It’s my Blogiversary and I’ll give thanks if I want to.

Happy Blogiversary, friends! Here! I've baked you these cupcakes*! Take a bite. Put your feet up. Stay a while. Truly, it is hard for me to believe that it has been a year since I typed my first entry of Mommy, Ever After. I remember that day perfectly. What seemed like a spontaneous decision was actually born out ...