Memoir & Poetry

11 Truths I Want to Share With Mamas Expecting Their Second Child

Memoir & Poetry

This is the post I’ve been mentally writing since my second baby’s birth!

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A Poem for My Baby Girl

Mama's Musings

Mama’s poem for her baby girl

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A Letter to My Baby Girl on Her Four Month Birthday

Mama's Musings

A love letter for my sweet baby girl

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Little Sister’s Birth Story: A VBAC Adventure

Memoir & Poetry

Welcome to the June 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Embracing Your Birth Experience This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about at least one part of their birth experience that they can hold up and [...]

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The Ritual of Dedication: How We Welcomed Our New Baby

Mama's Musings

This post was originally published on Natural Parents Network in May 2011. After a night of contractions and anticipating our second baby’s arrival, I’m thinking back to how we welcomed Baby into our family at large in October of 2010. A couple of years ago after experiencing a great tragedy in our family, I was [...]

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Poetry of a Hobo Mama – A Review & Giveaway Celebrating the Full Spectrum of Motherhood {4.30; Worldwide}

Memoir & Poetry

This is a group giveaway with Hobo Mama, Living Peacefully With Children, Authentic Parenting, Up, Down & Natural, Code Name: Mama, Positive Parenting Connection, and I Thought I Knew Mama. Please enter at one site only. Find the section marked “Win it!” for the mandatory entry and optional bonus entries. In honor of April’s National [...]

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I Thought I Knew Mama’s Top Posts of 2011

Green & Healthy Living

Happy New Year! January 3rd, 2012 marks my one year anniversary of blogging, and what a year it has been! According to Google Analytics, here are my top posts from 2011. I hope you enjoy revisiting a few of them or catching up on posts you may have missed. This blog is way better than [...]

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How Losing My Job Changed My Life

Memoir & Poetry

This is an expanded version of a post published several months ago. My ample midsection cramped up as I stood tapping my foot distractedly outside of a once welcoming room – a room that now held my fate. I tried to ignore the contractions that gently rocked me from the inside out and focus on [...]

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My Greatest Accomplishment

Mama's Musings

RememberRED is a memoir meme. This week’s assignment was to tell the story, without any trivialization or modesty, of something in your life that you are proud of. I will immodestly state that I believe I have achieved many accomplishments throughout my thirtysomething years that engender pride, but when faced with the question of choosing [...]

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How Getting Laid Off Changed My Life

Mama's Musings

My ample midsection cramped up as I stood tapping my foot distractedly outside of a once welcoming room – a room that now held my fate. I tried to ignore the contractions that gently rocked me from the inside out and focus on presenting a confident countenance that would be worthy of hearing the words [...]

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The Thought of You – My Journey to Motherhood

Mama's Musings

Welcome to the IF We Believe! Blog Carnival!In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly IF We Believe! Blog Carnival hosted by Arpita of Up, Down & Natural.Scroll to the bottom of this post for a list of other wonderfully brave mama’s who participate in this Carnival, [...]

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A Poem for Baby’s 10 Month Birthday

Mama's Musings

April is National Poetry Month and the month of the Poem a Day Challenge, and I’m celebrating by writing poems in my head while I nurse Baby in the middle of the night! You, unknowing yet wise, diminutive yet full of heart, have done for me what I have spent a lifetime trying to do [...]

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A Poem from the Middle of the Night with Baby

Memoir & Poetry

April is National Poetry Month and the month of the Poem a Day Challenge, and I’m celebrating by writing poems in my head while I nurse Baby in the middle of the night! Sometimes I think you would crawl right inside of my heart, if you could. Pudgy baby hands grip and devour long hair [...]

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Sound Bites from a Miscarriage Journey

Mama's Musings

This post is in response to the RemembeRED memoir prompt: Describe a time of forgiveness in your life. “What if something is wrong??” I forgive my intuition for hijacking this short lived pregnancy. The stark chill of SILENCE. I forgive the ultrasound technician for avoiding my gaze and not answering my questions as she passed [...]

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My True Self: An Illustration

Mama's Musings

This post is in response to the following The Red Dress Club RemembeRED prompt: Imagine you are meeting someone for the first time. You want to tell them about yourself. Instead of reciting a laundry list of what you do or where you’re from, please give us a scene from your life that best illustrates [...]

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In Loving Memory

Mama's Musings

This post is in response to the memoir prompt from The Red Dress Club which asked us to write about a memory, to really mine it and write about what the memory meant to us. It was a cool, grayish day at Jones Beach in October 2009. My family and I were attending The 1st [...]

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In This Moment: A Memoir of 5 Minutes

Mama's Musings

This post is linked up with the Red Dress Club’s memoir prompt, which asked: “imagine that after you have died and your daughter/son will be given the gift of seeing a single five-minute period of your life through your eyes, feeling and experiencing those moments as you did when they occurred. What five minutes would [...]

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Ode to My Little Valentine on His 8 Month Birthday

Mama's Musings

My valentine baby, I think I am maybe The luckiest mom in the world. To have spent eight months with you Gives such meaning to My life, now forever curled Into the heights of joy For my eight month old boy Who has planted himself in my heart. I love you, my little one! The [...]

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Some of what I thought I knew…

Mama's Musings

I wrote this poem in October 2010 as a reading for my son’s Dedication ceremony. For Jac We thought we knew adventure… Skydiving, climbing mountains, living on the other side of the world… But when we met you, we realized there was no greater adventure than helping you to grow. We thought we knew pride… [...]

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