"Perhaps you are magical. Perhaps you already know it.
And I hope he knows it, too. But you are also real.
And you should marry a man who knows you are both.
A man who can kiss you both tenderly and fiercely.
A man who anchors you.
Such a man...
There is no perfect, ideal, and cohesive road for motherhood, only the twist and turns of the “figure it out yourself” sort... Was I ever a fully-fledged person before I had my children? Why yes, of course I was… I had a life and it was a great one –...