I had worked all day. Changing diapers, filling cups. Picking up the same things I had held in my hand at least 8 times. I had grocery shopped. I had lugged things in alone while multiple pairs of eyes had watched me do it from their seats. I had...
I got upset tonight. My 10 year old, Tessa, and I were making a recipe together for some gummy candies. The kit had been one of her birthday gifts. She had not followed instructions. It was already too late when I noticed that she had jumped ahead...
I love being a mom. Growing up it was all that I said when asked what I wanted to be. So much of it is exactly what I pictured. Their faces at Christmas, a birthday cake smash, their first time riding a bike. But no one told me how big of a...
Part 1 – by Kerri Green I have a friend named Ori. Ori is a seer, a feeler, and a knower. However, when I first met Ori, those things were not yet revealed; as I met her in the throes of her nearly crippling postpartum depression, when she...
Having raised one daughter to adulthood, I’ve been through it once before. I have experienced the highs and lows. I have thought I wouldn’t survive it; but I did, and I came out mostly unscathed. However, I have not gone through the pre-teen phase...
Sometimes it depends on which day you ask. On how tired you are. On how many grapes you’ve cut and spills you’ve cleaned; Your thoughts on this Holy work. Sometimes the way you thought it would be has gotten swallowed up whole by the way that it...
I was not prepared. I only had a brother. One brother who kept to himself in his monochromatic sweat suits, silently watching a 9” TV screen way too close, while eating microwaveable burritos. He was peaceable, quiet, and unassuming. He had...
We just moved to the country. Not the have-to-send-telegraphs kind of country, but the kind with grassy hills and mature trees, and with enough space between you and your next-door neighbor that you don’t accidentally wake up holding hands. I, a...
I’ll never forget the moment. The standard stay-at-home-mom moment right before the message came. I had just picked up the same 10 toys I always did, and I had just changed a diaper that should have been brought up on criminal charges. I stood there...