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“Just you wait…” {Dear Moms of Babies & Toddlers}

October 12, 2020 by Aprille 2 Comments

Enjoy the now. It’s beautiful and wonderful, but I know it’s hard and exhausting and draining. The future is also hard and exhausting and draining and beautiful and wonderful. I’m convinced that motherhood doesn’t ever really get easier. It just gets different. Just you wait…

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Posted in: Motherhood Tagged: babies, mom life, motherhood, parks, playdates, toddlers

All the extra things that mothers do: the true weight of motherhood

May 11, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment

The problem is that I was unprepared for all the extra things mothers do that I never really noticed. The longer I am a mother, the more that I grow in appreciation for my own mother. Because now I can see all the things that she did that I took for granted. 

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Posted in: Motherhood Tagged: mom life, motherhood, mothers-day

Messy Motherhood (through the eyes of another)

May 14, 2017 by Aprille 1 Comment

This past week, my best friend Kathryn (who is a fellow military spouse, special needs mom, and blogger) came to visit me for five wonderful days. We have been online friends for eight years, but had never met in person until this week. Our motherhood journeys have had so many similarities over those eight years, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Motherhood, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: haircut, laundry, meltdown, mom, mom life, motherhood, mothers-day, special needs, YMCA

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