Shifting Mother’s Days – thoughts from 2023
Mother’s Days get more and more disjointed each year as kids grow up. But I think shifting Mother’s Days are pretty beautiful!
sentimental Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for the moms we love
Let’s talk for a minute about sentimental Mother’s Day gift ideas. The ones you can’t buy at the store. Things that really come from the heart. Because those are for sure my very favorite.
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for All Motherhood stages
Oh my goodness, Mother’s Day is around the very corner and we are here in the midst of brand new motherhood with Abby and sweetie Murphy Jane. So the two of us put our heads together and put together some Mother’s Day gift ideas for all stages of motherhood. Most of these things you can…
the gift I gave myself for Mother’s Day
This year I gave myself a Mother’s Day gift. I didn’t realize it was going to be a gift when it happened. You see, I was using my phone too much. I’m sure I’m not alone in this, right? Those phones can be magnets I tell you! And to be sure, they are pretty incredible…
pre-Mother’s Day weekend thoughts and a solo from Lucy
Let’s go back in time just a few years. Because I feel compelled to repost some Mother’s Day thoughts that made me tear up this morning. Especially Lucy’s little solo. How can it possibly be that this was only a few years ago??? (original post is back HERE, and goes on to include more thoughts…
how Mother’s Day went down around here
It was strange to have only one child home for Mother’s Day. I was with that one child last year as well, but back then we were fully enveloped in a hospital, just the two of us in the depths of a COVID-stricken world (no one else could even visit) as she recovered from her…
Happy Mother’s Day
I’ve been thinking lately about the divine role of nurturing (mothering). I know Mother’s Day can be tricky for some for many reasons. But the power of nurturing is so incredibly beautiful. From the dab of hair gel to hold down an unruly cowlick on the boys head in front of me at church a…
Mother’s Day and the rippling effects of the “impossibles”
Mother’s Day this time around was one I won’t soon forget, nestled in a hospital room with my Lucy, entrenched in the heat of mothering, trying my darnedest to harness my “inner-Linda”…the part of me that I search for often, that part of my mother who I hope runs through my veins. (She is the…
the people who made me Mother, and what we did on Mother’s Day
I wrote some thoughts on Mother’s Day back HERE. I wrote about motherhood and it’s beauty and the people who mother in so many shapes and forms. But I didn’t write about the people who made me a mother. Oh and these two as well: (They who are settled safely into a summer adventure in…