Category: Motherhood & Growth
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Baby-Proofing With Older Kids Already in the House
Our house has a teenager’s guitar, a ten-year-old’s craft supplies, homeschool binders, stairs, and a toddler who wants to explore all of it. Here’s what baby-proofing actually looks like for us.
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Going From Two Kids to Three With a Big Age Gap
I wondered what it would feel like for my older two when we brought home a baby so many years later. What I didn’t expect was how naturally they would love him.
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Caring for My Nana While Raising Three Kids of My Own—As She Turns 80
As my nana turns 80, I’m sharing what it feels like to care for the woman who raised me while raising three children of my own—the falls, difficult decisions, daily responsibilities, and love behind becoming her caregiver.
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Blended Family, Blended Love: Our Story of Starting Over
After divorce, I wasn’t sure what our family’s future would look like. This is the story of how we slowly became a blended family built on love, patience, and second chances.
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To the Fathers Who Keep Showing Up
For the dads who keep trying — and the ones we still carry. A Father’s Day reflection on showing up, even when it’s hard.
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Some Days I Feel Like I’m Giving Them Pieces of Me
Motherhood looks different when your children are 14 years apart. Some days it feels like everyone needs a different version of you, and you’re doing your best to be enough for all of them. A reflection on parenting a teenager, a preteen, and a toddler all at once.
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The Version of Me I’m Still Becoming
🌼 This isn’t a birth story or a postpartum post. It’s just me, still becoming, and finally saying it out loud. I don’t always know how to explain the version of me I’m in right now. I’m a mom.A wife.A homeschool mom.A woman healing through some things.A writer trying to build something meaningful. And somehow,…
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How to Mentally Prepare for Birth (What I Wish I Knew)
🌼 After three very different births, this is what I wish I had focused on from the beginning. Before my first birth, I spent months preparing for the baby. But I never thought to prepare for birth itself. I had everything for the baby. The clothes, the space, all the little details that make you…
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3 Births, 3 Completely Different Experiences (What I Learned Each Time)
🌼Because no two pregnancies, births, or postpartum journeys ever look the same. I’ve had three completely different birth experiences, and none of them unfolded the way I imagined they would. My first was a hospital birth with an epidural. My second was a C-section with a breech baby. My third was a natural water birth…
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Postpartum Essentials That Actually Helped Me After 3 Births
🌼 This isn’t a perfect list. It’s just what I actually reached for across three very different postpartum experiences — and what made those early days feel a little easier. The days after having a baby are something you can’t fully prepare for… no matter how much you read. There’s a quiet mix of emotions…