Tag: mother

• The Exhaustion of Single Motherhood

  

  I love to encourage moms. How can I not? Motherhood has been, still is, and always will be my passion. I sort of fell into it, and turns out it is the greatest gig in life. Today I want to encourage a special category of motherhood. It is another area I sort of fell into…single…

  Melissa

  March 5, 2020

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• The Sweetest Things

  It has been a rough week. As much as I fight it and try to make life perfect, I have to accept the good with the bad. I am going through some tough lessons, and I’d really like to stomp my feet like a child and refuse to listen. But lo and behold…I am a…

  Melissa

  October 24, 2019

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• I just Want To Clean The Toilet

  Every once in a while I get an entire day at home. When this rare occasion happens, I can’t contain my excitement as I think…..”I get to clean the house!” I just didn’t see this strange love of domestication phase coming. I’ll never forget a day in counseling many years ago, (nothing big – just working out…

  Melissa

  October 23, 2019

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• Cakes, Vomit, and Love

  As I sat in bed last night, enjoying what seemed to be the millionth episode of “Cake Boss,” with Buddy Valastro’s biggest fan,(my 9 year old daughter), I was jolted out of my half asleep, sort of spaced out relaxation mode, by a loud, roaring sound that caused me to scream, concerned my daughter had…

  Melissa

  March 27, 2019

  Aprons

  cherish, encouragement, exhaustion, family, fleeting, friendship, guilt, love, mom, mother, motherhood, parenting, raising children, sick child, single mom, single parenting, time

• Wanderlust

  

  I arrived in Ireland two days ago, along with my mother and my son. They are here to do family research and find the homes of some of our relatives who left many years ago to come to America. It’s been an emotional experience thus far. I came along to basically be their driver. (…

  Melissa

  May 28, 2016

  nostalgia, Uncategorized

  ancestors, atmosphere, cottages, culture, extrovert, foreign, genealogy, Ireland, mother, nature, open mind, senses, solitude, son, thoughts, travel, wanderlust

• Mom’s Faithful Table

  

  It’s about six feet long, four feet wide, made of a sturdy, old formica….and it knows all of my secrets. If mom’s kitchen table could talk, I’d be in big trouble. It’s edges are lovingly worn from our elbows leaning, and our hands running across the smoothness as we share our hearts. My mother and…

  Melissa

  April 20, 2016

  Heels

  changes, childhood, choices, friendship, memories, midlife, mom, mother, motherhood, red wine, secrets, tea