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The bathroom door clicked shut behind me, and I was alone.   The nurses were finally allowing me to shower four hours after delivering little Josie.   My legs were a little wobbly, my mid-section looked and felt like silly putty, but with the hot water pounding down on me, I started to process all […]

Catholic, marriage, Motherhood

August 14, 2016

Our Fertility Stories

It’s been a while since I wrote about motherhood around these parts. And it’s not for lack of ideas or time spent thinking about it.   The new-baby-days bring on all sorts of possible discussion points for mothers.   And I’ve thought about turning several of these into blog posts, but I just haven’t. Mostly […]

Adult Projects, Baby, embroidery

July 26, 2016

On Welcoming a New Baby

Welcome back for part two of the reader survey results.   Today I’m trying to make sense of the over 250 women that responded to the questions: What is my biggest struggle as a mother? Before I dive into the results, I want to talk generally for a minute.   I had a bit more […]

Motherhood

July 14, 2016

Survey Says: What’s Your Struggle as a Mother?

A week ago I created my first reader survey and, with fingers crossed, I sent it out into the world.   I didn’t check the results for 3 days, terrified that no one would take the time to answer the survey and I would be forced to write this post based on the feedback of […]

Motherhood

July 13, 2016

Survey Says: Homemaker Struggle Results