Dear Mama, What name are you currently going by? You know what was one of the hardest aspects of becoming a mother to me? It wasn't making sure I was doing "all the right things" prenatally, preparing for the actual birth, or even trying to figure out how we were going to do life with a new, small, helpless person. I stressed over baby names. Hard. Like, so much so, that my husband and I refused to name our children ahead of time because we both 100% knew that I would change

Dear Mama, Please don’t be offended if I don’t ask to hold your baby when I come visit...

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

Dear Mama, This is just a quick reminder that wherever you are in life, whatever it is that you are doing - all of the little, sometimes seemingly mundane things - it matters. My little girl's simple request last night to stop and "just hold me" reminded me that in this season of motherhood, the things I find actually matter most are the small moments of stopping to treasure our little humans. These two beautiful gifts we have been given - there is no more important work than

Dear Mama, We don’t have to see the whole picture to trust that it’s beautiful.

Though the valleys and the in-betweens can often seem like a place of regression, they can also be a place of rest and reflection.