Now more than ever, the holiday season means taking sides. Political sides – are you #feelingthebern or #teamtrump? Family sides – going to mine or to yours? Turkey sides – deep fried, smoked, or traditional oven roasted? A couple...
November is National Adoption Month, a path many families have taken on the journey to parenthood. Here are some of the details of that adventure for three local moms: Brittany Wise, Joyell Brown, and Bonnie Riley. Describe your family to us. Brittany: We are a military family of 5, we have 3 young children who...
In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month, I thought I would share my own story of prematurity. Spoiler alert: It is not about my own child. It's me! Oh, and my brother. We were both preemies in a time before so...
The saying “ignorance is bliss” has been around for so long because it is partially true. When we were in our late 20's and decided to form our family through adoption, we were so excited to begin the journey. When our...
My mom confession: I'm an addict. We all have things we just can't remove from our lives for whatever reason. Some people have an addiction to things that are very unhealthy, like alcohol or recreational drugs. Other people have less...
While I was pregnant, I dreamed of my son being one of the greatest minds in history. I wanted him to have every opportunity to cultivate any potential genius. I was a full-blown tiger mom. A few days after he...
Yes there is specific advice just for a little girl who is black. Just to be clear, I am not encouraging the divide that still exists between races. There are just certain things a mother wants her black daughter to...
I've had many dreams. I've wanted to be a doctor and a therapist, to name a few, but none of those held up. I hate math and science which crossed out the doctor dreams. I love psychology, but I don't...
For most of us in Columbia, the flooding we experienced and its aftermath are things we won't soon forget. I remember seeing images of New Orleans after Katrina hit and thinking how awful it was, but seeing photos of...
I knew I just wanted a lot. Matter of fact, when I was little, I even told my parents I would have enough kids to fill the biggest house I knew of in our town. I played pregnant and nursing...
  Before I became a mother, I assumed I would get my daughter's ears pierced as an infant, before she would have memory of the pain and when I would have control over the cleaning and maintenance of the piercing....
Pregnancy and infant loss affects one in four pregnant women. One in four. Twenty-five percent of all pregnancies (at least) end in some kind of loss, whether miscarriage (generally up to twenty weeks gestation) or stillbirth, in addition to...
Courtney and Allen Tipping have been married for eleven years. They attend Midtown Fellowship (downtown campus) where Allen is on staff. In late 2008, the Tippings found out they were expecting sextuplets. Their babies, tragically, did not live, as...
"Look, Mom!" My son, who was in Kindergarten at the time, gestured excitedly at a chic-looking woman seated across the waiting room at the doctor's office. "There is Jeffery's Mom! She helps during reading time in class. Come on! Lets...
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