The language that all mothers speak

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It’s such an ordinary evening. I’m just sitting there alone in Panera with my laptop and the best tuna sandwich I’ve had in ages. Deadlines loom large and Pete is home with kids so I can squeeze more hours out of a beautiful spring evening. My head is full of the tapestry of women. How [...]

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What the mirror doesn’t see

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Whether I’m hiding behind my kids or not. Whether I’m tired, wraggedy, or manic. He sees me. Not my undone laundry or my messy house. Not my fraying door mat or my futon with the chocolate milk stains. He sees me. Beyond the color of my hair or the size of my waist. Over the [...]

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How I broke up with myself six-and-a-half years ago

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Becoming a parent is a lot like breaking up with yourself. There’s all these things you used to love about yourself and your life. Those late afternoon naps. Those spontaneous movie nights. The tidy house and pretty things that could easily break. Lots of pretty things. Unbroken, pretty things. Uninterrupted meals, sleep, bathroom breaks. Children [...]

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Mother’s Day for the motherless daughter

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  My mom used to dance in the mornings. A happy, shameless jig in her PJs right there out in the driveway as my dad drove us off to school. She’d dance and wave and grin and I could feel the love well up from my toes to my nose. It spilled out of me [...]

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My free ebook is coming to your inbox today! {The Cheerleader for Tired Moms}

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I’ve got a present for you. And it’s the kind of present you can re-gift. The Cheerleader for Tired Moms: A Collection of Posts by the Gypsy Mama If you subscribe to this here blog {and have activated your email subscription}, it will show up in the footer of every emailed post from me or [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Real

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When last did you write for fun? Not to impress anyone, not for blog hits or comments or Pinterest pins? When last did you just write? On Fridays over here a group of people who love to go all out buck wild for the fun of the written word gather to share what five minutes [...]

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The growing pains of motherhood

May 1, 2012

I see you there. Aching with tired and the desperate hope for a few moments alone this evening. I see you cleaning that carpet again. I see those dishes that are on a constant rinse and repeat cycle. I see you settle down and get up and settle down and get up and settle down [...]

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100 Mother’s Day Gifts I’d Totally Give Myself

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I’m a six-and-a-half-year old mother this year. The hubs and I each have a mother we love, cherish and that our kids, our laundry and the inside of our fridge all wish lived closer. So when I started thinking about Mother’s Day, I thought about what we’d love. And I came up with this list [...]

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A super vacuum giveaway for all the super women! {Contest now closed}

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UPDATED: This contest is now closed. The randomly selected winner of the might Oreck and his sidekick hand held vac is commenter number 366 – Michelle Small! Congrats, Michelle and thanks everyone else who entered. We have a Cheerios problem at our house. Also a dirt-tracked-in-from-the-muddy-backyard problem. There’s a sandbox-sand problem on the deck and [...]

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Winners and sneak peek of tomorrow’s giveaway

April 15, 2012

If I had a million dollars I would be sending each of you a year’s worth of Saturday night babysitting and a copy of Megan Tietz and Laura Oyer’s beautiful book Spirit-Led Parenting: From Fear to Freedom in Baby’s First Year. Because your comments over here? All 467 of them kind of made my heart explode. [...]

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