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An ode to greasy hair
An ode to greasy hair. I went five days without washing my hair last week. That was up there when it comes to records of me not washing my hair. It was greasy, and starting to form some interesting animal nest/top knot bun combo thingy. It was getting weird. 🙃 But there was a lot…
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“Ugh, it must be teething”
Guys—how many times have you or your spouse/partner said, “Ugh, it must be teething” to each other?? 😂 After three kids, we have probably said it about one million times. We’ve blamed SO MUCH on teething and to this day, we have very little clue if the fussiness or lack of sleep or whatever the…
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What I want, more than anything in life, is to keep you safe
What I want more than anything in life is to keep you safe and show you all the love in my heart. All I want is to teach you to act with compassion, to treat people with kindness, to have pride in what you do, to respect yourself and others, to help those who need…
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To parents new + old: When someone offers to babysit—go out!
To parents new and old: When someone offers to babysit or agrees to babysit—get your asses out of the house and go somewhere together. I don’t care if it’s out to dinner, to a concert, for a cup of coffee, or to McDonalds for a Big Mac (that actually sounds amazing 🤣)… just go out!…
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I am a mother, and I deserve to feel sexy
Feeling sexy when you’re a mother—why can it be so tough? Why can it feel uncomfortable? Is it my stretch marks? My softness? The larger size on my jeans? Is it because my brain feels fried some days? Because my heart feels heavy sometimes? Because my style seems forgotten? Or maybe it’s all the boogers…
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Toddlers are strange + magnificent creatures
Think about it… They’ll lick basically anything within tongue distance of their mouth. They run while looking the other way and crash into toys/walls/people/animals. They try to touch their poop while getting their diaper changed. They’ll go two nights in a row sleeping through the night to a night where they wake up for a…
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Reconnecting with who I am underneath all this motherhood
After having three babies, it feels like my body has a birth pattern. I get pregnant, I go the full 40 weeks, I have the baby, I wait a certain amount of time, then I get pregnant again, and so the cycle continues. For example: Got pregnant in the spring of 2013, had a baby…
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Maybe going to sleep earlier will help lessen my anxiety + increase my energy?
I’ve decided I’m not going to wait until January 1 to start going to bed earlier. I want to get going, so I’m starting tonight, December 30. It makes sense to start on a Sunday since my strict 10pm bedtime nights are going to be Sunday-Thursday and my more lenient nights will be Friday and…
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When motherhood becomes you
I’ve been a mom for five years now. I’m a mom to three different kiddos. It’s sort of a weird stage of motherhood—I’m not the newbie anymore, but I’m not a seasoned vet quite yet either. My younger sisters are having babies or thinking about babies and their friends are having babies, too. I get…
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I will never be ready for the next stage
As I looked at the positive pregnancy test, my heart dropped. I’m not ready. As I inched closer to my due date, the fear of the unknown took my breath away. I’m not ready. As I looked into my newborn’s eyes, my heart cracked open. I’m not ready. As we dealt with our first sleepless…
Colleen Temple 