claim your light
Feel like you're drowning in motherhood? Like you've lost your fire, your spark, the things that made you who you are? I've been there, too, and it hurts. Read on to find out how to make time to grow, learn, create, and mother from a whole-person perspective. You're a great mom--but you're MORE than that one role. Find yourSELF in motherhood. ♥
I love learning. Do you? I love finding something that sets the gears turning in my mind. It makes me feel alive. Like I’m growing and changing. Like there is a forward momentum in my mind–even if my day is mostly cleaning up Cheerios and answering thousands of “Why?”s. And while there are plenty of opportunities in motherhood to learn skills like… Read More
Before I was a mother, I was a marketing developer. That’s a fancy way of saying I got to write for a living. (Yay!) I loved it. Every weekday (except holidays) I spent hours and hours poring over my research, writing and rewriting, and occasionally answering a phone call or two. Flash forward eight years–to right now. I’ve only been writing… Read More
I’ve always got a dozen or so projects going at once. Steve and I joke that I have Hobby-ADD because my brain leaps around from crochet to sewing to painting to graphic design. I write and draw and rearrange our furniture. I’m good at a lot of things but not great at any one thing, and that’s okay. I like to… Read More
image via etsy Friday afternoon I was pushing a cartful of kids through Target when my 4-year-old looked adorably up at me and said, “Mom, maybe we’re going to have a new baby, because your tummy’s getting very big.” I laughed awkwardly, suddenly self-conscious, and assured him that there was, in fact, no baby in there. Ever helpful, his older… Read More
