No one: Say Bekah, what’re you up to this weekend? Me: Oh, just stressing about how to properly describe the stress I feel about not yet finding time to read this book that Blaine sent …
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Burnout
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Delta on Delta
We’re taking Joe to the East coast for the first time next week, eeeek! To my parents’ house in Virginia, to meet his Brunstetter cousins and aunts and uncles. I haven’t seen my brothers in …
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39.99999999
Age is just a number, declared the woman as she turned 39, somehow still in her middle thirties, as middle thirties in fact last until the very last second of the day before you turn …
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Do you Validate
As I feel my feelings, and think about those feelings, then feel the feelings all over again, which might be the other Circle of Life? I realize that all people really need is food, water, …
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how Old am I
If you’re wondering how old I am, I am exactly old enough that when the the check out guy at CVS rings up my wine, and I say do you need to see my ID? …
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I am a person
I used to wonder if becoming a Mother meant your brain would be less full of tiny meaningless worries and insecurities, and while I find this to be SLIGHTLY true, yesterday I spent a solid …
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The Painting and the Statue
The other night, this old picture popped up in the weird ‘here are you picture memories’ phone thing. It’s from a 2015 trip to Palm Springs with my forever friend Elizabeth (WHO IS STILL THIS …
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scream feels
We have begun sleep training Joe, and by we I mean Joe screams and Morrison does the actual work of patiently listening to it, and I hide in the backyard. It only took me 90 …
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Sleep Train
For the past week or so, Joe has been going through what I will call a ‘Sleep Event’ in which he’s regressing, or maybe it’s we who are regressing, and we are sort of attempting …
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Color Meditation
I can’t seem to find a single kind of meditation that actually quiets my thoughts, but I’m determined to find one. Yesterday I attempted a five minute guided ‘color meditation’ in hopes of calming my …