Tag: motherhood
Body After Babies :: Letter to my Body(s)
I see you there, six
with your skinned knees and short hair,
chasing after the boys down the street
with a skateboard under your arm.
I see you...
Body After Babies :: Brave & Unapologetic
There's no need to be afraid. There's no need to be bashful. That's what I tell myself.
What I'm wearing in the photo is no...
Body After Babies :: Honoring the Imperfect
Camera shy? More like camera phobic! Thanks to digital photography I have been able to successfully avoid photos of myself through cropping or simply...
Body After Babies :: Ode to my Body
This body. This tired, strong, overworked body. Two boys breathed through this body, stretched skinny baby legs up into its rib cage, made its...
Body After Babies :: Becoming the Shape of a Mother
For pretty much my whole life I have been the image of "skinny": Long legs, lean torso, and a thin face. Despite being the...
Body After Babies: Worth the Stretch
When we have babies, our lives totally change and are never the same - our routines, our checkbooks, our hearts - yet somehow we...
What My Kids Taught Me in 2013
::Photo by Kristy Dooley Photography::
As we get ready to enter 2014, I wanted to take a chance to reflect on the past year.
Being a...
Who’s Raising Who? Or, My Little Live-In Zen Masters
I was in the parking lot of the Williston Shaws on Sunday, the sun hanging dangerously low as it does on winter afternoons, when...
The Newborn Time Warp
Before having a baby, there was never enough time in the day. I found myself constantly wishing for a few more hours in which...
Journey To Motherhood: The Road to Adoption
My journey to motherhood started a little different than most. I always dreamed of being a mother, but I had a severe phobia of...
A “rare” week
I will apologize in advance. There is a chance that this post might not make any sense. I'm currently suffering from sleep deprivation. No...
Honesty in parenting
I was out with a friend and we were talking about the importance of being real with each other as moms. Recently having a...
A Hopeful Story
I told the story here. It was the one about children first conceived in a heart and then in a Petri dish. There was...
Waiting for Life to Happen
We slipped casually into autumn. One day suggestions of fall were muttered under the warm breath of summer, crisp and chilly morning air and...