God, I’m so tired of being pregnant. Coming up to these last days, I’m feeling what pretty much every woman feels. Just frickin’ over it! The one tiny blessing of my last baby coming 10 weeks early, if there was one, was that I got to skip this part: the 6–7 lb small human rolling…
Oh boy. To say this was an “unplanned pregnancy” is a bit of an understatement. This was a came-out-of-left-field, how-could-this-happen, this-throws-off-every-single-plan kind of pregnancy. And no — we weren’t happy about it. Maybe you’re surprised to hear me say that so candidly.Maybe you’re horrified.Maybe your first thought is, Well, that’s a bad mom.Or, So many…
I couldn’t tell you when exactly I became a reader. I don’t remember my first book, or my first favorite author. What I can tell you is that books — and reading them — are wrapped up in so many memories in my life, it’s hard to separate the stories I read from the stories…
Stay with me here. It will make sense, I promise. Image by merakistudio from Pixabay If you are on social media at all these days, there’s no way you haven’t heard the term “the mental load.” It’s usually used to describe the invisible, unappreciated tasks that one partner — typically the mom — carries to keep a household…