Browsing Tag: motherhood

Building up and Breaking down

There are always going to be days where I am feeling a little broken down, worried about one of my children, sad about them growing away faster than I can kiss them good-bye or guilty by the way I spoke, nagged, or yelled the night before.  As a mother these past 9 years have been […]

I Want to Remember

  I want to remember all the moments with these three.  I want to remember the way each entered the world, one  loud, one small, one so soft.  I want to remember how they smell and feel.  How they spoke at three.  All the funny ways they say ordinary things. I want to remember the […]

The Talk {via momastery}

After putting the girls to bed last night, I laid down with my son.  Snuggled in his bed we often have these great talks.  From a boy who doesn’t talk a lot during the day, he has plenty to say to momma in his dark quiet room.  It’s kinda like those conversations you have with […]

Mama Bear

For the past two days, I’ve been walking around like a mama bear whose lost a cub.  I have been thinking about my oldest child whom we took to his first sleep away Sunday afternoon.  He was ecstatic!  The smell of the redwoods as the 3 of us approached the field for the first time […]