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The Pursuit
Very interesting prompts with Mama Kat today!#5.)If you could only focus on three things in life and pursue them fully, leaving everything else, what would they be and why?1. The interconnection between all living things.I believe there is an energy ...
Ending Only to Begin
I'm completely saturated by love for my two girls. Having children, being a mom is the most incredible experience. I am humbled in seeing two healthy beautiful children that have come from me. Creating a life, nurturing a life, loving a life... it is...
Pieces of the Puzzle
Mama Kat's Writers Workshop is today!1.) What does marriage mean to you?I've been fortunate to have two wonderful parents still in love and married after 35+ years of marriage! They gave me the foundation of what a marriage is and my husband's love f...
The Expression of Unconditional Love
We often think about the unconditional love we feel for our spouses and children, but recently I started thinking about the unconditional love our toddler has for my husband and me.Like most babies, my 10 week old daughter loves to be in my arms, ALL...
An Ode to Buddy for his Chocolate-Lust
This will probably be the one and only time I write about a pet on my blog since I try to keep my posts focused on the relationship between writing and motherhood. But for you peeps who are curious to hear more about Buddy, our Australian Shepherd - ...
Riding New Waves
Writing is a never-ending adventure for me, because each time I sit down to write I embark on a new quest. Sentences connect in new ways. Stories unfold in new territories. My writing style itself may take on a new form.Parenting is a lot like this. ...
Tuesday Tribute to Family
Click on 7 Clown Circus to join in on the fun!I'm a fiercely independent writer-mama, but this past month taught me that it's okay to accept the help of others and to even ask for help. On June 1st I gave birth to my second child and from that day o...
The Birth Story
Since the creation of my blog over a year ago I have found one concern rising above the many I have about blogging, the Internet, technology, and more: how much personal information should I share? I tend to withhold the intimate details of my life. ...
A Writer-Mama's First Days Back Home
After only two full days in the hospital after giving birth to my daughter Grace via c-section, my doctor and her doctor determined we were both fit to return home! As happy as I am to be back home with my toddler and husband, these initial days of r...
Giving Birth
Although the focus of my blog is discovering and discussing the relationship between motherhood and writing, today I write solely as a mother. I try to journal every day on my blog to get the wheels cranking in my head before I work on my writing, an...
What Would Your Business Card Say?
A Wordful Wednesday on what your business card would look like...As a writer working on building my platform, I find it valuable to have a business card to promote my writing in its early stages of publication in hopes that one day when I do publish ...
Happy Mother's Day Writer-Mamas!
I feel exceptionally blessed this Mother's Day to watch my almost 22-month-old daughter interact with the baby growing inside of me while I feel the love of my husband watching us.My daughter puts on her play doctor kit stethoscope and tries to liste...
A Jolt, a Bolt, and Jodi Picoult
***Announcement*** Tomorrow on my blog I will be hosting author Danette Haworth. She will be talking about her new book, Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning, and she will be giving away a free copy of it to a random winner who comments on th...
Writers Reducing Waste
My husband and I only lasted about a month with cloth diapers. Poops were too frequent, too messy, too smelly in our tiny home. Sadly, I cannot even begin to imagine the volume of space our daughter's Huggies now take up in landfills. Diapers alone ...
Fading Footprints
One of my favorite lessons that I used to teach when I was a biology teacher involved the concept of "ecological footprints." The main idea of a person's ecological footprint is the measured impact an individual has on Earth through the resources he...
A Writer-Mama's Emotional Intelligence
My 20 month old daughter had her first nightmare two nights ago. She woke up at 2 a.m. crying in a way we never heard her cry before, so we went to check on her. When I picked her up she was trembling and couldn't stop crying. Finally after an hour o...
Look At Me Mama
My 20 month old daughter thrives on getting approval and attention. Once a week we go to Gymboree where she runs, dances, bounces, and shouts for 45 minutes, all the while looking at either me or the instructor for our smiles, nods of the head, claps...
Hand Me Downs
I recently began to think about my preparations for the arrival of our second daughter since the due date is only 10 weeks away. Carrying my 20 month old daughter is getting harder and harder these days as my belly is enormous and sets my sense of eq...
