Motherless Mama
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As you prep for when baby arrives the one tool you need to leave the house with (after the car seat) is the diaper bag. When looking at the suggested checklist it seems that a new mom needs a large suitcase with heels just to leave the house. Your back groans at the thought…
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Making storybooks on a windy Spring Break.
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It is Day 1 of the BC Teachers Strike. There have been many mixed emotions about it from parents, the union and government. I have made my own feelings be known about the matter to media and both sides of it. That is not why I am penning this post. Initially when the strike was…
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My crank-o-meter is about to burst. We are standing in the food aisles at Walmart on a Saturday morning. My husband has to work today so I have our 3 & 5 year old daughters to do the weekly shopping. You can just feel how it’s been going based on my youngest’s cries and…
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Reflections Bubbles Balls To-Be Independent Security Blanket Arms Forgotten shadows Dark niches Bubble Thoughts Slick love Closed security Crowded Alone Maternal Calm Lost dreams Forgotten paths Found amnesia Maternal Happiness Maternal Guilt Restrained thoughts Writer lost. Maternal traitor Daughter restraint Marital Trite Mama Dope I wonder if it’s the right thing I wonder if… it…
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With one hand I am pushing the grocery cart. Attached to the other hand I am feeding snacks to my three-year-old who is snug in the upper part of the cart. The cart is almost filled I turn towards the long line-up at the cashier. Sighing, I give my iPhone to my daughter in hopes…
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as posted on www.amotherworld.com I spy my husband’s truck pulling around to our home. I see the red balloons bopping up in the passenger’s seat. I do not tell our daughters that daddy will be home any minute. A smile reaches my lips when I recall the Valentine’s Days of our past, or rather before…
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My favorite day of March Break is the first morning you wake up without the alarm. There is no scramble to clothe, clean and feed the kids to race out the door on time. Part of the morning madness is my three-year-old who doesn’t like early rise. Many mornings I get her dressed to wake…
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Over the Christmas holidays I retired my keyboard. The pressure to blog became a burden and not a fun thing to spend my time on. I enjoyed the time with my family and read over nine books. Over the month I learned many things: The best writers are readers. Stephen King said that. While…
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My exhausted body drops into the couch. My legs are splayed over the coffee table. I reach over to my abandoned coffee cup. I carefully take a sip to only find out it has gone cold. With a big sigh I get off the couch to dump the remains into the sink. I step aside…
Danielle Christopher 