because i said so

My Former Self

Stephanie Land June 24, 2019 because i said so

I’ve been told I have it easy, being a single mom. Even that I’m not a real mom for getting this freedom.

Mother’s Day Eve for Me

Team Mamalode June 22, 2019 because i said so

Forward

Julie Merritt June 21, 2019 because i said so

Letting go, saying goodbye to dear friends at our son’s pre-school. They stood by us as we weathered the storm of his diagnosis with autism spectrum disorder. The people to …

Baby Blues

Jessi Marcinek June 18, 2019 because i said so

A mom admits that Zoloft makes her a better mother.

In the Middle

Joy Latimer June 10, 2019 because i said so

I am in the space between. The middle place. Caring for young children and elderly parents. It is a place full of radiant highs and stomach dipping lows. A place of awe, …

Someday

Erin Gilman June 5, 2019 because i said so

Someday, I will hold you.
Someday, I will kiss your forehead and smoosh your cheeks.

Control

Kathy Glow May 26, 2019 because i said so

I looked at him and calmly replied, “We both know that there are so many things in this life we can’t control. Why not control the things we can?”

My Heartbreaker

Amy Turn Sharp May 21, 2019 because i said so

And my heart falls to the floor, right out of my body and around the room. His fingers used to be so small like the tiniest promise, the boldest whisper. And now he woos me with Neil Young. And now we move like folk singers across the carpet.

First Contractions

Mary Dombrowski May 18, 2019 because i said so

The first pains, the first aches, the first pushes as my spicy little one kicked his way further down into the world. What followed was a violent, thunderous burst in my heart and a clean, fresh page to my purpose.

Day in the Life of Mamalode—Mo Larson

Team Mamalode April 7, 2018 because i said so

“The second time I got cancer…” Not a sentence I thought I'd ever say, but I've used it in the last several months. To differentiate from the first time I got cancer at age 12, and a breast cancer diagnosis at age 39. wresting with this disease as a kid: very different dealing with it now as a mom to three and wife to one. Join me on my LAST (hopefully ever!) chemo treatment.

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