family
Family unites us; but it's also a challenge. All about fighting to stay together, and loving every moment of it.
Happy, Happy Birthday To Me
For most people a birthday is a time for celebration and happiness but, for others not so much. Is it a bad thing that I just look at my birthday every year as another year closer to dying? I know it sounds depressing but, it is very true. My feelings of my birthday started to get more like this quite recently. As of May 29th 2019, about a week before my birthday my son's father Nick died. That really took a huge hole out of my heart and the space is still there and has yet to be filled. Sadly, to make matters worse his Mother Renee passed away on October 29, 2020. I get even more upset around my birthday now because, Renee's birthday was June 16, 1966! I miss her so much and think of her constantly. Renee was like a second Mother to me.
By Karly Krull5 years ago in Humans
It's all Kevin McAllister's fault!
Spoiler alert: Santa is not real! Let us set the scene. It’s Christmas, one of those magical ones! It’s cold. Thick fluffy snow is softly falling outside. I can smell the roast in the oven and mom is kneading the dough for some cinnamon buns. I have a feeling; it will be a successful night! I walk to the living room and look at the Christmas tree. What is this? What ….I mean…what is going on? What are these …these….BAGS doing under the tree? I run to mom and complain.
By Helen Tootsi5 years ago in Humans
My Toddler Got Her Period: A Strange but True Medical Story
My daughter had just turned two when she got her first period. It came with all the challenges we expected - moodiness, emotional sensitivity, even cravings for chocolate. It was a very typical menstrual cycle, really.
By Robyn Reisch5 years ago in Humans
You Are The Creator Of Your Happiness
As kids you see your Mom as a Superhero. They can accomplish it all. As an adult you start to understand the work that is required in their efforts. I am currenlty the same age my mom was when she had me. My mom is the most inspirational and positive person I have ever met. I am a middle child, and I've been screaming about "Middle Child Syndrome" since I could remember.
By Willie Dee5 years ago in Humans
The Non-Verbal Observation That is Positively Changing My Life
They say history repeats itself until the lesson is learned. Have you ever looked through personal historic records like the baby book your mom assembled for you and realized there are lessons hidden just outside the frames of the cute and funny baby moments?
By Danielle Deutsch5 years ago in Humans
Smile Often
Smile often. A lesson I learned simply through observation of my mother. No matter the day, no matter the moment, her smile spread across her face in a welcoming sea of compassion and acceptance. It gave her strength just as much as it gave her two daughters strength. A single mother, she understood the mindset she maintained within would guide and direct hers and her daughter’s lives far more than her feet would. People craved to be around her because she challenged you, all while smiling and encouraging you. She met obstacles with hope and mountains with determination. She sought out knowledge, achieving every degree in nursing that one can obtain, and not once did she complain of being tired, even after the long 12-hour shifts in the Emergency Room. She later found true passion in teaching others going on to teach paramedics, nurses, and anyone within her presence for more than five minutes. She wrote nursing manuals, created Advanced Life Support training curriculums, and established seminars for the Division of EMS that are still in existence today. Knowledge to her was power and she wanted all those that came in contact with her to leave more powerful than before.
By Lisa Johnson5 years ago in Humans
There Is Not a Single Doubt Whether, She Is the Glue
There are many things that make my mom a boss. She is loving, kind, generous, strong, courageous, steadfast, etc. She’s been through so much and has overcome. My mom not only lost her brother, when he was just nineteen, but she also lost my brother Justin when he was nine. Her mother also passed away from breast cancer, and she, herself had stage four colon cancer and had to go through surgery, chemo, and living in fear that it might return. Life hasn’t been anywhere near easy for her, but she still pushes on. I admire my mother for these things and for many others; however, something that I’ve always admired about her, that I’ve never mentioned to her before, is her hospitality.
By Hannah Stanton5 years ago in Humans
Things I Know About Motherhood
Motherhood is an enigma to me. For a long time, it was an enigma because of its distance, but now as I have entered the final year of my 20s it has come more sharply into relief. Two of my friends recently had children, one of them a newly minted mom, the other a seasoned pro of a mom, and although none of it is surprising I find myself disoriented. Where will motherhood lead them? How will they change and grow? Listening in on the zoom conversations about strollers and breastfeeding and amniotic fluid levels I realized how little I ever knew about the endeavor of motherhood.
By Brittney Exline5 years ago in Humans
