Hellobee

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, order and joy [...]

At the grocery store yesterday, I saw a mother take a baby food jar off the shelf, open a package of spoons from the hanging rack and feed her baby right there in the aisle. When I saw that little unwashed spoon heading into the baby’s mouth, I immediately went a little crazy inside. The judgy [...]

I was sitting in my friend’s house recently and her son came up and said “look mommy, a penny.” She smiled and said “that’s right, and who is that?” pointing to the face on the penny. “That’s President Abraham Lincoln mommy.” She looked at me and laughed. “History teacher’s kid,” as she pointed to her [...]

I wrote back in February about how we kept hearing all of these huge changes were coming to our lives. This is the after post where I revisit my statements, and eat them if necessary. Your life is over. My life has just begun. Seriously. In order for my life to have been over, I [...]

I tell you, Theodore Roosevelt knew what he was talking about when he said that. As a new mom, I’m lacking the confidence that I typically have in every other situation I’m involved in. Nearly all of our friends already have children, and some are on their second, so I’m the late entrant into the [...]

We had our baby three months ago and I’m still trying to work through how I share our birth story. I’ve talked to a lot of mommies about their experiences and read quite a few stories online. In some cases people that planned to have a home birth had to be transferred to a hospital. [...]

Little Eloise has been here for six weeks.  Long enough that she has officially outgrown her newborn clothes, but short enough that people in the store still open their eyes real wide and say “awww…” when they see her.  Long enough that I will soon get my official “healed” stamp from my midwife and be [...]