“Mommy, Why Don’t We Have a Normal Family?’ Blink. I turned around and looked down into my daughter’s beautiful brown eyes that she got from her father, pushed back her curly dirty blond hair that she got from me and my mind went blank of my usual, witty, question brushing off remark that has always worked for [...]
They say you can’t go back. That you can not recreate the joys and happiness of your past that you remember so fondly. While I agree to a certain extent, I also think that the benefit of having a past is that you can pick and choose what you want to take into your future. [...]
I realize that this post might ruffle a few feathers. I realize that I am speaking from my own experience. And I realize that my ex-husband will read this and unleash yet another round of hatred and immaturity on me. I also realize that all family units are not the same. Not all mothers are [...]
I have been through some things in my life that are probably out of the norm. Not necessarily any worse than other people. But things that I just have out there. Even as a little girl, I have used writing as a way to let those experiences filter through me and onto paper, lifting the weight that I had [...]
