I don’t know about the rest of you mommas with littles, but I feel like I’m wearing so many hats these days! (Mom, wife, part-time teacher, sporadic photographer, reader/writer, house renovator, homemaker, church attendee, perpetual vacuumer and toddler referee [man, those tiny humans can really …
As you’re dabbling with the decision to start blogging, and then clumsily nudging that blog to gain traction and momentum, you often find yourself asking “why?” Of course you’d like a readership, otherwise you’re just talking to yourself in a digital mirror, and then a …
When my Postpartum Depression and Anxiety were at their height and my mind felt trapped in a revolving door of “morbid introspection,” my therapist encouraged me to turn to creative outlets for an escape. There’s definitely wisdom in that advice, especially as it relates to …
Somewhere several months into my second pregnancy, I ordered and began to read a book titled, “What am I Thinking: Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression” by Karen Kleiman. It’s a valid and sobering question for the mother recovering from PPD, one I had to …
“To the woman he said, ‘I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children.’” – Gen 3:16 (ESV) Among the several harsh punishments meted out to Adam and Eve in the Garden, we regard this as womankind’s particular share. …