I realized that the parts I dislike most about winter: being cold, bad roads, short days, are also the parts that give me my favorite things about winter: being home, not leaving the house, and snow IS pretty. But it could still be winter and not be 1°.
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 –...