motherhood
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Why I’m Still Writing about Infertility
“This is no thaw. This is spring. What are we to do? Your winter has been destroyed, I tell you! This is Aslan’s doing.” I have never read the entire Chronicles of Narnia series, but this year, I put them all on my reading list. I read one or two chapters a day. When I… Continue reading
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For Young Mothers
people say so many things. . .like you’re in a game you cannot win,like your life has all but ended.but maybe motherhood is a mosaic,a hard wrought, stained glass windowwhere tears and laughter collide,where wounds reopen in the workingand glisten if light filters through. I am cut, reshaped, pieced back. . .and I feel like… Continue reading
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The Days Before I Saw My First Positive Pregnancy Test
Quite a few Novembers ago, I remember sitting outside and trudging through the emotions that come with infertility. There was a storm brewing in the distance, but as I sat there I suddenly felt that it would be okay. . . even good. Not right then. Maybe not soon. But sometime. There was a a… Continue reading
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Bright Yellow Boots
if you’d stayed littlelike all mothers sometimeshope, then I wouldn’t smileso brightly nowwatching you toddlein your bright yellowboots. and one daystanding in the kitchen,I’ll be having a conversationwith a man,and I’ll wonder how it happened.I’ll think back forjust a secondto once upon a timewhen you fit perfect in myyoung arms. but you’ll say, “Mom,”and I’ll… Continue reading
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