Tag: new mama
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Growing Hope
The afternoon before Jacob is born, I trudge up the stairs to my bedroom to lay myself down. September sun filters through the window, casting shadows from the orange leaves of the tree onto my bed. As I crawl under the covers, I think, this is what hope feels like, and I exhale. I’ve been…
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You Can Do This
Friends, here’s the truth: Life has been HARD recently. Hard hard hard hard. Hard. Not necessarily tragic or traumatic or full of drama – just HARD. You ever have one of those seasons? When it just feels like you can’t catch your breath or catch a break? We are in the middle of one of…
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How Do I Want to Show Up in the World?
Last week I came back from a week at a summer camp for women. Talk about a situation ready to send you right back into your junior high insecurities: a bunch of women sleeping in the woods, swarmed by mosquitoes, constantly sweating in the moist North Carolina air. We shared our cabins with mice. We…
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My 2 a.m. Friend, or The Day I Thought I’d Lost My Son
One minute we were lounging on the picnic blanket in our backyard. Jacob was happily chewing on a toy and I was happily snapping pics of him as he rolled back and forth, wiggling his toes in the air. The next minute, I noticed he had a piece of grass sticking out of his mouth,…
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The Joy of Surprising Yourself-and Others-With Who You Really Are
This past weekend, at almost 35 weeks pregnant, I drove to Vancouver for the SeaWheeze Half Marathon and walked 13.1 miles. Was this planned? No. Did I train for it? No. What happened was I got up Thursday morning, decided to try and walk 5 miles, and when I did so successfully, I figured I…
Erin Curlett 