a mother’s love
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There Are Things I Wasn’t Prepared for When I Became a Mother
there are things I wasn’t prepared for when I became a mother. how four years later I’d feel sad for my son who loved a beetle-bug he kept in a small pumpkin house or crawling cheerfully on his dinosaur shirt. my son carried this bug so happily, so carefully, but the beetle-bug would fall on… Continue reading
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A Peaceful Birth Story – welcoming our 3rd baby
On November 27th we welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Sylvia Colette. But where to even begin? Because there’s so much to say and not very much to say at all, because her delivery was absolutely peaceful and sprinkled with laughter. The hardest part of labor were the weeks leading up to her birth. Our Sylvie… 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
Sierra V. Fedorko 