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Adventures in Motherhood: How A Mom Can Make Anywhere That's Quiet Her Own
When I was a little girl I never had any dreams involving kids or of being a mother. As a matter of fact, I never even considered it. While the other girls were busy playing house or with their dolls, I was figuring out how to fit an old-school typewriter into the piece of carry-on luggage I'd be taking for my upcoming Amtrack adventure with my Abuelita.
By Francesca Crespo aka The Industry Momma5 years ago in Families
...It's the Thought that Counts
We’d been at the hospital all day. Dad’s dizzy spells had been diagnosed as 4 or 5 brain tumours (the doctors weren’t sure if one of the shadows on the scans was one large tumour or 2 smaller ones), inoperable. The “experimental” laser treatment had proven its exact predicted worth: “It won’t cure your father, but it may give him an extra couple of months”. That was 6 months prior, and those extra couple of months were well & truly up. We’d been told not to upset him at any cost as that could cause haemorrhaging on the brain and at worst/best instant death. And so began our journey of walking on eggshells, navigating his constant mood swings and his demanding of our time, patience and unconditional love. We’d tell ourselves that despite how unfair he may have been in any moment there’s always someone else worse off and we weren’t the ones having to face that “terminal” diagnosis.
By Joseph Murray5 years ago in Families
Our Dining Table Made Us Save $6240.00 And Earned Us 52 Memorable Sundays In A Year
Dining Out Has Been Our Family Bonding I am so lucky that my parents and siblings live within 4-km radius of where I live. We all have our families and jobs to tend to. But on Sundays [pre-Covid], we attend mass together in the morning followed by lunch in any chosen restaurant. Our food bonding is usually followed by having fancy coffee with cakes in Starbucks or any new cafe that we wanted to try.
By Olivia Marlene5 years ago in Families
Patrice Emery Lumumba
A villa among others within a garden. The hostess opens the door herself and prepares you a coffee in the kitchen. Although a journalist in another life, she says she is uncomfortable with the interviews, but still welcomes her into her living room and answers questions with rare sincerity. A formidable narrator, she passes in the same sentence from literate French to Kinshasa Lingala. Her name is Juliana. She is the only daughter of Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the independent Congo, assassinated after a few months in office.
By JEANNOT DESIRE5 years ago in Families
Alcohol and Motherly Parenting
So, here I am, age ten. I just started living with my father. We moved to a different town close by, to where my mother was left. I started going to a different school, which meant new people. I had just left all of my friends at my old school, left my mother, and lived in a new town. That's a lot for a young child to deal with and deal with that stress within a week time period. Please forgive me as you read; these memories aren't easy to accurately remember, let alone be painful to muster up.
By Jessica Girdler5 years ago in Families
From the right corner of my front room
If I can see the third set of hills on the right clearly it will be a good day. But it's cold! It was freezing during the night and a heavy frost is still on the cars. My home is in Edinburgh, Scotland and 10 minutes from Blackford Hill., the one on the left.
By Eric Sutherland5 years ago in Families
MOM FOREVER
Nicknames are one of the best ways to show your love and affection for someone you love and adore. For the “female soul” in your family (daughter, mother, grandmother, cousin, aunt, etc.) or it could be an intimate connection with a woman (girlfriend, fiancé, wife, crush), there is always the perfect name for that woman that encapsulates her personality and looks.
By Dandelionclub5 years ago in Families
Pandemic Parenting and Virtual School
Pandemic Parenting. Yeah, that’s a thing. “So, have you given up yet?” That’s the question I ask myself in the reflection of my coffee every morning. My answer is always, “If I can taste this coffee, then no.” But deep down, I contemplate a retreat to some remote mountain village where Buddhist monks live.
By Kandice Moore5 years ago in Families
Where Precious Moments are Created
Being outside in nature is the place where I feel most at home. Photographer: DeMario Holley; Henry Doorly Zoo 2010 Whether it's snow, sand, dirt, grass, water, or trees, being in it, touching it, breathing it in helps me to feel at home, cozy, comfortable, calm, and at peace.
By Angelica Stevenson 5 years ago in Families
Mothers' Love
It’s not like I had never hit rock bottom. I had been homeless off and on since I was 19. I usually hid out, couch surfed. Begged. This time it was different. I sat there with two babies in my arms confused to how I’d even gotten there. A month ago I was at my mom’s house laughing and getting to know her for the first time. The next thing I knew I had filed my taxes and my mother was dropping me off to my aunt’s house in Indiana. Her husband wasn’t happy with the new living arrangements. They were moving to Arizona the house was to be closed and given to the bank.
By Hollie Horton5 years ago in Families
