This year, when you’re swallowing the lump in your throat and waving good-bye and counting down the minutes until pick up, you need to know that someone else feels it too.
Because you are a faithful and capable father, and I should trust the ways you contribute to raising our child.
Happiness is something that goes far beyond what you give your children—it lies in how you raise them.
I thought they’d eat whatever I made them. Boy was I wrong!
I know that I have a kid now, but I am so much more than just a mom.
I’m going to let my kid be a kid. I’m going to let him make messes—perhaps even encourage them. I’m going to let him make noise—and sometimes join in.
I am celebrating because this is the best decision that I could have made for myself and my child—but I honor and respect the decisions that other mamas have made for themselves and their children.
We need you to take more pictures that are unasked for, that allows us to see what being a mother looks like through someone else's eyes.
Motherhood does not have to be the altar at which you sacrifice your joy for other things outside of being a mama. Because your role as a mother and your passions can coexist.
My heart is truly full to have been able to share space with other mamas and their little ones.
I wish I had learned to live in the moment a little more and appreciate the solitude for what it was.
And it’s just another thing that makes me proud to be a mother—witnessing him become his own person with his own relationships and the opportunity to create his own memories.
We’re the soft cushion below them. When they need to unravel, they choose us.
How do I encourage my kids’ fire to fight injustice, yet also encourage them to see people as imperfect beings who are, for the most part, trying their best?
While we’ve made incredible strides in terms of how companies support working moms, we are lagging in terms of how the corporate world supports and perceives working dads.
It doesn't matter your age. It doesn’t matter when you first became a mom or when you gave birth to your last. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mom of one or of many.
1. Check your thoughts, and then challenge them
I hadn’t thought about how my homebody tendencies were keeping my son from building relationships and creating memories outside of our home, with other people.
And I realize that many of these moments will be "lasts" very soon, so I cherish them as if they are.