The hours and days following the birth of my son, Jack, are a haze to me. I don’t remember anything besides working hard to get him to latch on to my breast every two to three hours which consisted of his crying, followed by my crying, and eventually a successful feed. I was functioning off […]
Wordless Wednesday
I have noticed something on other mom blogs called Wordless Wednesdays and I want to join in the fun. Although today is actually Thursday and this is not wordless, consider this the first post! Enjoy! 🙂
Expecting the Unexpected
If you start counting Jack gets excited. By the time you say the number two there’s a huge smile on his face and he is more than ready to erupt in giggles when he is tossed in the air, spun in a circle, or tickled. The anticipation is half the fun for him. And us. […]
Overworked Mommy Needs Advice
Tim starts school tomorrow… and he’s excited about it.If you know Tim, you know that this is a big deal. I’m excited for him to learn about cars, to become a mechanic and earn us some big bucks (well, potentially). What I’m concerned about is what’s going to happen to me in the next 18 […]
“I love you more”
This is a devotional I wrote for my cousin-in-law Jamie’s baby shower. It was birthed out of my own struggles in the early months of motherhood. My struggle to bond, my struggle to breastfeed, my struggle to sleep, my struggle to thrive. But in all of the struggles, the deep love for I felt for […]
No Escape
Jack peed on me! Three times!! That’s right, I just told on him. I have to say, one of the times he peed on me I couldn’t do anything about it. I was trying to get him into his bath and he would not sit down. Straight as a board, Jack peed directly on my […]
Realistic Beauty
Though I try to be grateful that my weigh continues to drop (at least I think it is, I don’t have a scale to actually confirm this), I can’t help but be frustrated over the fact that I do not know how to dress my postpartum body. Beginning with the top, my arms are a […]
Highs & Lows
Low: Jack woke me up at 6:30 this morning. 6:30!! Way too early. High: Jack snuggled with me on the couch tonight, leaning his face into mine. I love this kid.
One Lonely Mommy
Loneliness is something most moms deal with. To quote Carla Barnhill who wrote The Myth of the Perfect Mother,“Our friendships with other women are often the first thing we sacrifice when we have children, simply because we know they’ll understand.” (92) Ouch. I find that to be a harsh reality. My friend Kelly and I […]
We Love WIC!
Today was our tri-monthly WIC appointment. For those of you who don’t know, WIC stands for Women Infants and Children. It is a federal program run by the USDA Food & Nutrition Service which provides “supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and […]