Goodnight Mom

I stopped writing for some time. A year and a half. Did you notice?  I got busy. I’m always busy. Are you busy?  Today I  feel especially called to find my voice again in this blog. I started Good Night Mom when I was pregnant with my first, back in 2019. I started this blog because I was learning SO MUCH about motherhood that did not align with all the things I thought I knew. All the ways society taught me to view motherhood.  The biggest thing at the time was how motherhood is meant to be “natural” a part of nature. We still expect women to feel some sort of way about having children. And I realized how frustrated and agonized I became when 2 months of trying for a baby turned into 5, 6, and then 9. And how lucky we were that it was only 9. So many parents go through much longer periods of desiring to conceive, of trying IVF, surrogates, and adoption proceedings. There are many ways to become a parent. This blog was the space for me to express the challenges I fac...