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My 4 Words for Motherhood are Relentless, Chaos, Perseverance, & Confusion. But motherhood would never ask you to not be you. It asks you to be a better you. To be brave, to impress, and to trust yourself. To make a plan you’d be proud to accomplish and then stay the course and see what happens. Even in Summer! You are the best mother when you rise up be a hero for both them and you. Being human, falling down and getting back up is a very noble process and one we owe ourselves and our children a chance to see us grab and run with.
Last month, as I searched for a photograph that wasn’t my outdated head shot, I was reminded yet again that I don’t exist. All the pictures in our family albums prove my disappearance. According to these pictures, our family seems to have had some really wonderful times. At the beach, in New York, and at…
The problem with coming out of such an active month (October…crazy posting every day) is that I think I should want to not do anything for November. But my creative brain wants no part of a forced hiatus. So what I got is a dust cloud in my brain. Moments of clarity are followed by…
Originally published in May, I thought this post pretty enough and relevant to how my pictorial story is unfolding to republish. Enjoy We celebrated Fiona’s arrival last weekend with a few close friends.An opportunity to share her and entertain. I’d forgotten how much we enjoy throwing a party. And I wanted to prove that I…
Before Mark and I moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, we lived in the quaint neighborhood of Hampden in Baltimore City. The area was built around a waterway called the Jones Falls and when you catch certain sights, you can feel the history of the town built on the hills around the work of…
It’s OK to not know what you’re doing. To not know how to do it perfectly. How it will work out or turn out. Or even not to know how start. You assume EVERYONE must know but you. They don’t. They were busy thinking you knew. And rather than look a fool in front of…
What you do for your bosses, husband, and children they’ll come to expect. I coined this expression when I used to clean houses for a living. I was kind enough to wash and redistribute towels in a client’s bathroom. And the next time I cleaned for her, she was indignant that I’d not done this…
I have a little song that I made up for Fiona. And every time I sing it, she stops and smiles because she recognizes it. Sometimes I use it to calm her down when she’s headed for a fussy jag and I need another minute or two to finish what I am, soon to be…
Thankfully, we had a reprieve in the weather here in Maryland in August. Usually so ridiculously hot and humid that we all huddle inside our air-conditioned houses and pray our children survive to see the first day of school. Because the lack of exercise, except for the McDonald’s playland , makes them, and you, punchy…
Down here on the “slower lower shore” in Caroline County, Maryland, they have an Annual Wheat Threshing Steam & Gas Engine Show in August. This was their 53rd. Located on the route south from Denton, Maryland to Federalsburg, this hootinanny is held in a great big field and features an antique tractor show, flea market…
Why do we not allow for the learning? We get so impatient that stuff isn’t happening fast enough. Do we expect our children to ride a bike the first time they put their butts on the seat? Nope. And yet we have no patience with ourselves when we can not master something immediately. Two years…
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