BrittanyMay 4, 20212 minThe Other Side of Mother’s DayThis is the pretty side of Mother’s Day. The picture perfect celebration, bouquet of flowers, matching dresses side. But there is another
MeganFeb 23, 20212 minDear HusbandWhen the world is dark and silent and sleepy is when the weight and loneliness is the loudest. I know you leave the house to go to a job...
BrittanyDec 1, 20202 min2020This year has been HARD, in all the obvious ways and in ways I never expected either. When COVID first began changing the way we operated...
MeganOct 21, 20203 minI’m scheduled outFor the love of all things holy, please don’t make me schedule one more call. One more zoom. One more FaceTime. One more anything. I can’t d
BrittanyAug 14, 20201 minSeenTo the girl who sees everyone else: I see you. I see you show up for others, in their moments of crisis. I see you, with your pom-poms...
MeganJul 24, 20204 minGrateful for less weightYou ever want to know how much your partner actually does? Do everything without them. Never again will I take having him around to help...
MeganJul 17, 20203 minBe that friend You know how you have friends? And then as you become a parent, you have mom friends? And you may try to vent to your friends about parentin
MeganJul 15, 20204 minIf you have a newborn, your partner is now your babyWe might have had a baby together, but darling, your child, your priority right now, is not that sweet precious bundle of joy. It is me.
MeganJul 8, 20203 minNormalize not asking couples when they’re having kidsDid you read that title? No? Shame on you, you always read the title first, you rebel. Now go read it. If you did read it, gold star! Now go
MeganMay 26, 20203 minMy personDo you guys have a person? That one person you tell everything to- big or small, monumental or mundane? Someone that you can be yourself...
MeganMay 11, 20204 minMy husband is my best friendMy husband is my best friend. Yup, you read that right. You know if you’re out, you have one person you gravitate toward? He is that person.
Oh- Four the LoveMay 1, 20202 minWhat I Need You to KnowI am 1 in 4. And no one seems to know what to do, or what to say, or how to treat me. So let me hit "pause" on my internal devastation
BrittanyApr 15, 20203 minGoing to bedI am trying to be a good E V E R Y T H I N G. Literally everything. To everyone. All of the time. Everywhere I go. Every second. Of every si
MeganApr 13, 20202 minI need to put me first I cannot be what you need me to be right now. I cannot be your shoulder to lean on. I cannot be your voice of reason. I need to put me first
MeganMar 20, 20203 minBeing pregnant killed my sex driveBeing so out of control of what was happening to me killed how I looked at myself. Which in turn, just flat out murdered my libido.
MeganMar 11, 20203 minNo one told me that becoming a mom would also mean becoming invisibleSomehow, as I transitioned into being everything for my tiny little human, it has been forgotten that I am a person with my own set of needs