I'm a pretty ok wife, a great dog mom, and a giant hot mess. Formerly Anticommitment - oh the irony.
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Joined May 2011
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Three days ago, I gave birth to a beautiful, perfect son. It wasn’t long after that he passed on as my husband and I held him. I am now a mother without a baby, and I’m trying to understand and process how to live with that reality.
We laid him to rest today next to my grandfather. As a Christian, I know that my child is in Heaven. He didn’t suffer and now he never has to. But my heart is still in complete pieces.
While “celebrating” a terrible break-up, I told a stranger at a bar that I liked his beard. Five years later and a baby on the way...🤷🏻♀️💛
What's the one sentence version of how you and your spouse met? We'll run select answers in a special wedding issue of @OxfordMagazine that just so happens to coincide with Valentine's Day. Thanks!
Unborn child can now hear outside of the womb, so it’s time to start educating him/her. We’ve started reading the first Harry Potter book out loud. By the time I go into labor, the baby will have “read” all seven. No shame. @jk_rowling
I picked a fight with my husband - he responds by filling up my car with gas and buying groceries so I’d have lunch all week. It’s annoying when you’re the problem spouse. Like, I just need to be a brat and I need you to let me.
Living in your college town after graduation is the worst. It’s 5+ years later and if, in public, a stranger with a beard starts staring at me - I panic and have to try to remember if I may have drunkenly made out with him when I was 18-21 years old.
Our power is out and we’re using shot glasses as candle holders, so you could say we’re on pretty advanced level of adulting.
Four months pregnant and I feel like a whale. Am I just showing early? Am I just that big? Plus size pregnancy is so confusing.
I’m tired of seeing your recipes, Susan. Of course I don’t want to know how to quickly feed my family a healthy meal. I just need to know how to cook and cry at the same time. I’ve eaten out 17 days in a row.
We all have friendships that are now more about the history than the reality. It’s okay to miss it, but that doesn’t mean keep putting yourself in situations to be hurt.
Those friends will always be important because they shaped me and changed me as I was in them. But memories are allowed to be left where they belong.