She has had such a hard time at her new school. Often she will come home with stories that break my heart into a million tiny pieces. Children can be SO mean. But her kindness and resilience continue to amaze me. She is my muse and my inspiration.
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 –...