Motherhood

I'm a mom to four older kids, and while toddler moms get the memes and communities, I'm out here parenting pseudo-adults and creatively unraveling. This post is a rally cry for moms who just want to make something, anything, and feel seen for showing up every day, even in the mess.

She'll buy her kids $90 shoes without blinking, but wears socks with holes. Her cart is full of things she'll never check out. She's the mom who gives everything and asks for nothing. And her kids ae getting older, some of them are starting to see it. This is for her, the over-whelmed, good-enough, doing-the-most mom who wonders if she's doing it right.

One minute he's hugging me , the next I ruined his life. Raising an 11-year-old boy is chaos, comedy, and heartbreak in one.

Last week, my 17-year-old daughter graduated from high school. I clapped, I cheered, I ugly cried into a wrinkled tissue I found in my...