| Mommy Diary ® https://mommy-diary.com/stories/ Motherhood, Identity & Healing—Creative Modern Motherhood Sun, 12 Feb 2023 16:44:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://mommy-diary.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-Mommy-diary-submark-white-pink-32x32.png | Mommy Diary ® https://mommy-diary.com/stories/ 32 32 111288181 Pregnancy Blues https://mommy-diary.com/an-unwelcomed-pregnancy-emotion-feeling-blue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-unwelcomed-pregnancy-emotion-feeling-blue https://mommy-diary.com/an-unwelcomed-pregnancy-emotion-feeling-blue/#respond Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:39:18 +0000 https://mommy-diary.com/lifestyle/201646an-unwelcomed-pregnancy-emotion-feeling-blue/ I’m currently 23 weeks and today, I feel down. No, I feel trapped in my pregnant body. The weather is humid, gloomy, sticky and oddly hot, the kind of yucky weather that brings earthquakes or days of rain. To top it off, it’s windy. The So. Cal weather has gone crazy once again and I’m...]]> https://mommy-diary.com/an-unwelcomed-pregnancy-emotion-feeling-blue/feed/ 0 178 Something Like Destiny https://mommy-diary.com/something-like-destiny/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=something-like-destiny https://mommy-diary.com/something-like-destiny/#respond Sat, 20 Dec 2014 07:37:00 +0000 https://mommy-diary.com/lifestyle/something-like-destiny/ Thirty something years later, I still believe this. Perhaps my belief is a way of wanting the story of my life to make sense. If this turns out to be untrue, my life will be thrown back into chaos, into the black hole of late teens & early 20’s without a clear sense of direction and...]]> https://mommy-diary.com/something-like-destiny/feed/ 0 61 I Am That Imperfect Mother https://mommy-diary.com/i-am-that-imperfect-mother/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-am-that-imperfect-mother https://mommy-diary.com/i-am-that-imperfect-mother/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:53:00 +0000 https://mommy-diary.com/lifestyle/i-am-that-imperfect-mother/ This morning I heard a tragic news: a close friend has cervical cancer and had to abort her second child to prevent the cancer from spreading. Luckily she found out early enough, thanks to a routine check up necessitated by her pregnancy, and is now recovering from a hysterectomy. As a mother and friend, the...]]> https://mommy-diary.com/i-am-that-imperfect-mother/feed/ 0 4 An Ode To My Thirties https://mommy-diary.com/an-ode-to-my-thirties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-ode-to-my-thirties https://mommy-diary.com/an-ode-to-my-thirties/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:36:06 +0000 https://mommy-diary.com/lifestyle/201499self-portrait/ I’m two days shy of another birthday. Today I’m no longer the naive, carefree girl in my 20’s. I’ve failed in numerous relationships and made countless mistakes in my lifetime. I’ve cried over unworthy men, been betrayed by manipulative girlfriends, hurt people I shouldn’t have hurt and stayed loyal to those who didn’t deserve my...]]> https://mommy-diary.com/an-ode-to-my-thirties/feed/ 2 49 An Afternoon With My Special Needs Child https://mommy-diary.com/an-afternoon-with-my-special-needs-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-afternoon-with-my-special-needs-child https://mommy-diary.com/an-afternoon-with-my-special-needs-child/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:43:00 +0000 https://mommy-diary.com/lifestyle/an-afternoon-with-my-special-child/ I can’t believe it’s already been 9 years since I first became a mom. It seems just like yesterday, yet it also seems so long ago like a far distant memory. I wish I can go back to the day she was born- to see, hold and smell her again, yet another part of me remembers...]]> https://mommy-diary.com/an-afternoon-with-my-special-needs-child/feed/ 2 2335