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In Mom-Mom’s Arms
My Mom is the most self-less, generous person in my life. She is a Mother of five children, the Grandmother of 13, and a Mother figure to countless others. Now that I am a Mother, I finally understand a lot of what she has been talking about over the years. She told me I would…
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Postpartum in a Pandemic Pt. 2
Saturday, December 19th All the tears that I felt I couldn’t release over the last few months surged to the surface. I questioned him, hoping there could be a chance it was a false positive. He assured me that false positives are very rare, plus he had symptoms. They came on hard and fast. He…
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Postpartum in a Pandemic – pt.1
I’ve wanted to sit down and write for a while now, but I wanted to be in the right head space to do it. Tonight, as I was taking my evening bath to wash off the smell of spit-up, I realized that I have a 2 year-old, a 7 month old, and I’m living through…
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Zachary Morris Ells Jr.
On the night of May 27th, we put our Lucy girl to bed for the last time before we became a family of four. My parents arrived to stay the night. They wished us well and we said a teary goodbye. We opened the garage and our neighbors cheered for us. Zach honked the horn…
