throughtheseasonse

Right now my little boy is real into me asking him questions and playing “would you rather”. One evening we were playing outside and I asked him two questions “If you could buy mommy anything in the world what would it be?” “What do you wanna be when you grow up ?” His answers blew me away, especially since they came from a 6 year old. “Mommy, I wanna good family. You know like I wanna be a good daddy” This little man has always loved babies and stuffed animals. He takes care of his...

I didn’t grow up imagining motherhood this way. Like many women, I had a picture in my mind—one that included tiny socks, late-night lullabies, and children who shared my eyes or my smile. I thought I understood how the story would go. But life, in its quiet and unexpected way, had something different in mind for me. Motherhood didn’t arrive with a positive test or a nursery to decorate. It came when I said “yes” to loving a man named Martin—and with him, a grown son who would gently,...

It’s funny how we look around and see that mom and think she has it all together, she lives in this perfect fairytale life, she is the “perfect fairytale mom.” We look at her cute outfit or how she has her hair done. We see her makeup done in a simple way because she simply doesn’t need it. It’s the inevitable trap: We see her. We see ourselves. We compare, seeing our shortcomings and her advances. We instantly create the “perfect fairytale” version of a mom in our head. We try to achieve...