For 19 years, I was lucky enough to have the most amazing mom ever to have lived on this earth. I That’s her in the photo, wasn’t she ridiculously beautiful? I always loved the colors in the background, the silver lining around the Pacific waves that somehow emphasize the honey highlights in her hair. See,…
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Forever In Your Heart released for pre-order!
A children’s book on grief ABOUT THE BOOK Forever In Your Heart is a story of love and comfort after loss. Written for both children and adults who have lost a loved one, it reminds us that despite our grief, our loved one will remain with us forever through the love they’ve left in our…
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I hope it helps the little ones in your life make sense of the heavy burden of grief. I hope it helps them understand that those who we have lost are always with us, forever in our hearts
Overextended.
“to extend or expand beyond a safe or reasonable point” Tuesday morning, 5:30 am. Mommy…mommy…you can hear the whispers. As you pry your groggy eyes open(ish) through the ridiculously early morning darkness, you make out what appears to be your 3-year-old pleading for some grapes…peeeeeeez. You stumble your way to the kitchen, tripping over a scattering of Tonka trucks…
7 Tips for Raising Boys…While We Have Them
After six years into this mother of boys gig, I’ve come to know a thing or two. The biggest of which, is that I actually know nothing. But despite my utter cluelessness, I do have a few tips for my fellow halfway-to-crazy parents raising these tiny tornadoes called boys. Watch out for little landmines of Legos…and pee.Seriously,…
From One Exhausted Mom to Another
Hey girl, I feel your pain. The pure exhaustion is setting in, taking over every part of you. I feel. your. pain. Today’s one of those days you’re so tired that if there was a breathalyzer for delirium, you’re pretty sure you’d blow a million point a million. Maybe you were up all night with…
Reinventing
We may have made acquaintance some years ago, when I started a just-for-fun blog called “Words by Me, Katie Z“. Well it’s been a few years and while we had some fun, got re-published on a few cool sites (thanks Roseanne and She Knows), it’s come time to refresh, refocus, and reinvent this little writing…
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