Recently I was travelling with my baby, and my three year old Lili was home with dad. I expected her to cry a lot, and be mad at me for leaving, but she really surprised me with :”I missed you mom, and I’m happy that you are back” phrase. And than she turned away and…
I am a mom. And I get anxious because of my kids. I am an anxious mom. I used to be careless and positive thinking. I used to believe that it’s going to be all good. Not any more. If my kids are calm and sound asleep I need to check if they are breathing…
A member of my family asked me recently, if I’m only a mom now, and where is Joanna that they used to know. And I thought about me, and about my friends with kids, who also seem to have lost themselves in maternity. In what way did we changed? What does it mean to be…
There are these days when I tell to myself : you’re doing a great job, Joanna, there is no way you could possibly be a better parent ! It’s usually when I’m drop dead tired and impressed by my resilience. In moments like that, simply feeding them and keeping them safe seems like a great…
Do you sometimes feel like the time is passing by too fast? I do. Of course it’s never that way when I have to make dinner, while taking care of a whining baby, and a toddler that’s dangerously bored, aka I’ll-throw-a-tantrum-any-minute-now.. It’s when we sit down to craft with my daughter, and I look at…
Imagine this: a lovely, warm and gentle woman has been trying to conceive for 10 years. She and her husband have tried everything. She can’t get pregnant, but she can’t imagine a life without having a baby, without experiencing pregnancy and birth. And there is another woman, smart and sensitive. She’s already a mom to…
