Tag: Motherhood
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The Honesty of Almost
My daughter is 17 today. She got her drivers license (the real one with the REAL ID), her first sew in hair style (she had a whole issue cuz she swore the curls were old lady curls— GEN Z), and is currently driving us to Memphis. Meanwhile. My husband is nearly shitting bricks because she […]
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Late Posts are the BEST posts: Sunday Evening Edition
I went to church today after arguing with myself about whether I wanted to go or not. Then God reminded me that I made a vow—cut my hair back off and everything to start the process again to remind myself that my mourning won’t always be—so I got up. Glad I went. Pastor K preached […]
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Late posts are the best! Saturday evening edition
My day started off crap. I didn’t realize how tired I really was until I began to try and move around. Talk about DESTRESS! Our dryer is still broken because who finna pay somebody $249 plus the parts to replace the heating element? Hint: it rhymes with “said the fly!” So I had decided to […]
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The paralyzing pressure of perfection
I had promised myself that I’d post daily for 30 days straight this month, but sometimes life has other plans and I am working daily through the hamstring known as perfection. I like to present things well. So I have drafts that are basically done but I haven’t “treated” them yet. Thus, I missed 3 […]
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The Messiness of Motherhood
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. Nishan Darwar When they say “parenting doesn’t come with an instruction manual,” that’s such an understatement. At least it was for me! Even with the unsolicited but absolutely necessary and exceedingly appreciated advice from my […]
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Boundaries
I almost forgot! I’d actually meant to “press” someone else’s work and forgot that I never actually did it; I had saved it, thinking I’d scheduled it instead. What I had meant to do was leave a little blurb on their original post before I shared it because to do otherwise seems rude to me, […]
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I’m a WRETCH Undone | August 2015 (Nashville Now)
I have not always done a good job of showing my daughters how to demonstrate love and caring the way that God has commanded us. In my pursuit of perfection, I have displayed the ugliest of my character traits: inpatience, anger, frustration, meanness, judgment, and depression. Sometimes, I have gone so far as to behave […]
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You are not a tow truck: take care of yourself!
Are you walking around life like a tow truck, dragging drama, weight, and burdens that don’t even belong to you? Time to release that struggle and walk into a new season.
Kisha Creates 