The "you're a lot this morning" gif got me 😂😂 RELATE. I'm so glad you were influenced! I just love Clover Stroud's writing. I'm like OH WOW SHE WENT THERE and I'm so glad she did! That book was brilliant.
YES!! As I was reading it I was like “Oh. Okay. Wow.” And it’s the kind of book I especially love Catholics recommending. Enough with the overly precious, artificially sweetened books about motherhood, please. More of this.
“A war crime” gotttt me 😂😂😭😭😂 I had a professor in college who once told me that you should be able to tell if it’s a good book by skimming the first 10 pages. I don’t know if this is universally true, but he’s probably the smartest person I’ve ever know. 🤷🏼♀️
Ooh I relate to this so much! Especially the juxtaposition of feeling like you're drowning (the room filling with water was an incredible metaphor)/feeling like you're a hostage or being tortured with the song lyric at the end that sounds the drumbeat of our culture: You're going to miss this one day! Cherish every moment!
Interestingly, I felt like this so much (and wrote about it in my own substack) this summer, and then my daughter went to sleepaway camp last week--she's there for another week! The thing I've noticed most during this break is how I've been able to exhale, to unclench. I didn't realize how much I was living in this hypervigilant mode, while also being relentlessly talked at/unloaded on, until she was away. It definitely has me wondering what I can tweak in my parenting approach/mindset once she's home...
Yes! When the big kids stay with grandparents I always miss them the most when I first drop them off. Then I get home and I’m like “ahhh. This is amazing!” And I’m almost never quite ready for them to come home 😂
Krista, this was a delightful read! The tie in with the war crimes at the end had me cackling. Hoping small moments of respite will fuel you. That chicken salad sounds so yummy (though I do love a good mayonnaise-based salad, too). Thanks for the mention of the Motherhood Minute magazine—I would love to see your words in the fall issue!
The "you're a lot this morning" gif got me 😂😂 RELATE. I'm so glad you were influenced! I just love Clover Stroud's writing. I'm like OH WOW SHE WENT THERE and I'm so glad she did! That book was brilliant.
YES!! As I was reading it I was like “Oh. Okay. Wow.” And it’s the kind of book I especially love Catholics recommending. Enough with the overly precious, artificially sweetened books about motherhood, please. More of this.
This. Everything about this. Especially: "At minimum, my brain is holding three people’s streams of consciousness.”
And I am so particular about the crust-to-filling ratio.
“A war crime” gotttt me 😂😂😭😭😂 I had a professor in college who once told me that you should be able to tell if it’s a good book by skimming the first 10 pages. I don’t know if this is universally true, but he’s probably the smartest person I’ve ever know. 🤷🏼♀️
Loved all of this and felt it deeply. I also get every imaginary game wrong when I play with Isaac!
Aww congratulations on your son’s baptism!! And cheers to also being constantly, incessantly ‘mentally waterboarded’ by the people I love most 🥂
Two book recs for you! The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and How the Story Goes. I think you'll like them both!
Ooh I relate to this so much! Especially the juxtaposition of feeling like you're drowning (the room filling with water was an incredible metaphor)/feeling like you're a hostage or being tortured with the song lyric at the end that sounds the drumbeat of our culture: You're going to miss this one day! Cherish every moment!
Interestingly, I felt like this so much (and wrote about it in my own substack) this summer, and then my daughter went to sleepaway camp last week--she's there for another week! The thing I've noticed most during this break is how I've been able to exhale, to unclench. I didn't realize how much I was living in this hypervigilant mode, while also being relentlessly talked at/unloaded on, until she was away. It definitely has me wondering what I can tweak in my parenting approach/mindset once she's home...
Yes! When the big kids stay with grandparents I always miss them the most when I first drop them off. Then I get home and I’m like “ahhh. This is amazing!” And I’m almost never quite ready for them to come home 😂
Krista, this was a delightful read! The tie in with the war crimes at the end had me cackling. Hoping small moments of respite will fuel you. That chicken salad sounds so yummy (though I do love a good mayonnaise-based salad, too). Thanks for the mention of the Motherhood Minute magazine—I would love to see your words in the fall issue!
I had Jeff pre-read it and he legit laughed out loud and I was like “NAILED IT!”
You sure did!
Love this. Thanks for reading. Means the world!
Thanks for writing! As a fellow therapist, yours is the kind of therapy adjacent writing I love.