Catherine Dietrich is a freelance writer and mom to two girls. A former women's magazine journalist, she now writes for various online publications as well as celebrating the ordinary moments of motherhood on her blog, Littles, Love and Sunshine. Catherine is a British South African, currently living in Switzerland with her husband and two small daughters.
For better or worse, and also a global pandemic.
I learned that it's impossible to underestimate the value of an old friendship and that my children were compeltely fine without me.
We were able to bare our ugliest secrets, our silliest insecurities, our pettiest worries and our darkest fears about life as a mom.
One day they won’t need me so much, and I’ll be free. But one day, they won’t need me so much, and I’ll be quite lost.
Your hands, worn in infant size by her. Your toes. The color of her hair—identical to yours as a child. The shape of her chin and the curve of her upper lip. Your placid expression was mirrored by hers as she gazed out at the world in those first months.
One day soon, heartburn will be a thing of the past and you will no longer need the giant box of TUMS you keep within arm's reach.
We woke up beside each other this morning, and that is a dream come true.
Their wildly contrasting personalities couldn't have been clearer right from birth—and yet, as the months chased each other by I didn't get it.
Writing down those small moments completely changed my life.
Ain’t no shame in my nap game.
