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A Warm Meal & A Hug
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A Warm Meal & A Hug

Dear Kids : I hope you’ll always know you can come home to Mom for a warm meal and a hug.⁣⁣Today I asked my kids what they wanted for dinner.⁣⁣Orange chicken (yep frozen from Costco) or homemade stew??⁣⁣In UNISON : “Stew mom!!! Make the stew and biscuits!”⁣⁣So I started browning the meat. ⁣⁣ My oldest son...

Your Mom doesn’t have all the answers
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Your Mom doesn’t have all the answers

Dear Kids : sometimes your mom has no idea what the right thing is to do, and I am not always right. I’m also 100% ok that you know that.……. Shocker. I don’t have all the parenting answers. Nope. 14 years in, still don’t. In fact, I think that was the biggest shock as a...

I was SO worried when I quit breastfeeding.
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I was SO worried when I quit breastfeeding.

I was SO worried that being the 6th child and the only one NOT going to be breastfed for at least 6 months, somehow she’d FEEL less loved? Or that I would feel LESS bonded to her? Or that somehow her babyhood would be less magical ?  I was honestly devestated when I realized breastfeeding...