April & May in Moments

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My Strong-Willed Child Isn't Scary (Anymore)

This article was originally posted on TheBLT, where I'm a guest columnist. If you've met Maya, or if you've read anything about her on my blog, you know she's been strong-willed from day one. Literal day one, her first day on earth as a social security card-carrying human being. This, especially to a person with no children, was terrifying. Okay, it wasn't terrifying, but nearly. My first reaction...

A Moment of Peace

...Which I ruin, of course, with all this thinking.A day of constant setbacks and interruptions has ultimately led me to where I am now: in my bed at 5:06pm next to a (finally) sleeping toddler and feeling the strong kicks and somersaults of a very awake bump-baby. I have a load of dishes to do, and clean laundry covers the living room furniture, but I'm not jumping up to go anywhere just yet.I'll get...

I Thought Motherhood Was My Calling

This article was originally posted in April 2016 on TheBLT, where I'm a guest columnist. I didn't know what motherhood would be like before I became a mom. I had ideas, sure. I had dreams and images, which were enough to make me want to have babies. (That, and, you know... biology.) You hear so many things about being a parent before becoming one. For the most part, everything I heard was true for...