Umm. Have you seen this? The headline made me tear up. The headline, people. Just the headline. If you don’t feel like clicking, or if you’ve used up your free NY Times article for the month, the headline is “In Parents’ Embrace, Infants’ Heart Rates Drop”. I’ll give you a minute to think about that. [...]
Archive for tag 'motherhood'
This was written last year when I was about 6 1/2 months pregnant… Today is my first Mother’s Day. It’s not the first one I’ve celebrated; there have been 28 of those prior to this day. But today is the first time that I woke up to the amazing, completely stunning and silencing feeling of [...]
For the first decade of our relationship, Mr. Tricycle and I rolled as a team of two. Our duo formed on the first day of college; we lived down the hall from each other so as the semester progressed, our lives slowly began to intertwine and we established a relationship groove that would serve as [...]
Olive accidentally bit me so hard while nursing in her sleep last week, it drew a lot of blood and left me in serious pain. Sorry for the visual, but it did hurt as much as you’re thinking since she’s 18 months old and has all her teeth! I couldn’t even use a pump to [...]
After reading this post about becoming a new mom written by Mrs. Magic Wand, I have been thinking about the “me” and the “Mom.” It has been eight months since I gave birth to our little tea cup, and I have to say the “me” I was before is very different from the “Mom” that I [...]
Disclaimer: These posts are dedicated to following along with the book “Deliberate Motherhood: 12 Key Powers of Peace, Purpose, Order & Joy,” a compilation of essays on motherhood written by authors who contribute to the Power of Moms website. Each month has a different “power” to focus on with the purpose of finding peace, purpose, [...]
Early in my pregnancy, it took forever to get to 12 weeks when we started to tell family and friends, and then even longer to get to 20 weeks, when we found out the gender. By 30 weeks, I was starting to get excited to meet our baby, but I also wanted time to slow [...]
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