motherhood
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It’s Been Beautiful & Hard – life before our third baby
With less than a week before my due date and everything as ready as can be for our third child, I’m left with time to soak up this season of my life and my family before it all changes. I’m anticipating the change with my foot on the gas pedal. I can’t wait. But also.… Continue reading
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A Bedtime Story of Faith and Motherhood
Not long ago I walked by the bathroom mirror and did a double take. Seven months pregnant and it shows. In November I will give birth for the third time. Yet for about half of my twenties I grieved the reality of infertility and the possibility I would never have children from my womb. There… Continue reading
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How Grand to Live an Ordinary Tale
I’ve wondered– Can I write a boring novel? Just about life. Describe those ordinary moments that speak of the deepest blessings, the greatest stories? Would people read it? The falling-in-love part was beautiful, but all the days to follow, all those dinners made, the discovery of being blessed though childless, those first two pink lines,… Continue reading
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I Hate the Lies They Told You
At 16 weeks I found myself in the ER due to bleeding. The risk was placenta previa. While I sat in the waiting room, a girl easily a decade+ younger than myself was wheeled in experiencing extreme pain after taking abortion pills. Months later I’d wake up one morning with the beginnings of a poem… Continue reading
Sierra V. Fedorko 