Tag: friendship
Navigating Mom Friendships: Embracing Different Beliefs for Maximum Joy
As moms, we're all finding our way in the beautiful, messy journey of motherhood. From sleepless nights to endless diaper changes to preteen sass...
Lost or Found? Our Sense of Personal Identity Within Motherhood
One night, I found myself scrolling Instagram and going to a college friend’s page. She and I had the kind of dynamic that once...
Mom Struggles: the Challenge of Keeping Adult Friendships Alive
It's no secret that I have had trouble making friends as an adult. Last year, I wrote a post about how hard it was...
Motherhood Support: Laying the Groundwork and Showing Up for Others
Motherhood support is not something that I was graced with in the early stages of parenting.
I entered motherhood as a terrified twenty-year-old, and my...
Four Kinds of Toxic Friends to Avoid in Your Adult Life
I’ve written about making friends before and how I was happily complacent with not having a lot of friends. I didn’t say how I...
The Constancy of Friendship: A Tribute to a Beautiful Mother
In April, I learned that one of my oldest and dearest friends had died. In between the surges of shock, of sadness, anger, and...
Why I am So Grateful for my Daughter’s Extracurricular Activities
My eight year old daughter tried some new extracurricular activities this year and I am eternally grateful for the opportunity this presented me...
Why?...
It’s Okay: A Letter to my First Timer Friends
Dear Friends Who are Pregnant with Their First Child (or Who Just Had Their First),
It's Okay.
You and I might not have had a chance...
My Best Friend
You know those women with one best friend?
A friend like a sister, a forever partner in crime, and a soulmate. The sort of epic...
My Virtual Friends
There’s something tragic and comical about being an extroverted stay-at-home single mom. I spend most of my time with my 5 year-old daughter, and...
Best Friend Heartbreak
Upstairs tonight, I have two broken-hearted little girls tossing and turning in their beds. They are each missing an important piece of girlhood: a...
Young Mom, I love you.
I was a young mom.
My first child was born a few days after my 22nd birthday. Four months after completing my time in the military and...
Ten Reasons to Dismiss Someone From Your Life
The idea that I could dismiss someone was new to me, a foreign concept.
I sat in my therapist’s office, drying my eyes, as she...
That Friend
Growing up I counted myself lucky.
I had a family, a home, and some pretty spectacular friends. It wasn’t until I had my own children,...