Motherhood

When I was a child, I wanted to grow up and be a lawyer or a politician. I thought debate was fun. I liked logic and the idea of community stewardship. I even had the chance to go to...

October 15th marks Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. October is also set aside to bring awareness.   Sadly, twenty five percent of pregnancies do not go full-term.   This October, our friend and owner of Twin Cities Moms Blog, Beth, suffered her...

1.5.13 - Hattie Elizabeth Zustiak 6.24.13 - Emerson Daniel Zustiak June 2011 Baby Mahan 10.2016 - Baby Zustiak  If you would like to add your child to this page in memory, please submit your child’s name and date using the form below. We will...

It was June of 2012. Hot. The weather in South Texas rarely changes. Windy, sunny, rains occasionally. One thing you can almost depend on is the weather here. I was a little over 5 months pregnant and working part-time. I...

The hardest job I'll ever love. Isn't really a job at all. It's Parenthood. During the light of the day, we are really something. The hustle and bustle begins swiftly, I'm usually jolted awake by the pitter patter of tiny feet on...

My dad's parents were a constant in my life. Meme was feisty and borderline neurotic about things like cleanliness (thanks a lot for that gene, Meme! lol). She was the type who, when at a restaurant, would swear she...

To my son's 2nd-grade teacher, I promise I had good intentions; I really did! I bought workbooks, flashcards and took multiple trips to the library to check out reading books. I had plans to work a little every day with my...

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio have come to a close. Many of us have spent recent days questioning our very existence. Michael Phelps has twenty-three gold medals. How many do you have? (The answer is zero.) A 19-year-old is...

The phone call came in June, about 2 weeks after I had accepted a full time teaching job. We had been matched with a birth-mother in Virginia Beach, VA. She was due in September, about 6 weeks into the...

If you have read my journey through infertility, you know that it took seven years for my husband and me to have our first child. So, we wanted to go as natural a delivery route as possible to make...