by Molly Huggins | Aug 4, 2014 | Aha Moments, Bug, Mommy Heart, Photos
Sometimes, not very often, but on nights like tonight, after we took a bedtime selfie – with two stinky boy-children draped across my legs and the pungent odor of J Girl’s feet wafting past my nose – I think about my first baby. My sweet first child whose...
by Molly Huggins | Mar 6, 2013 | Bug, Hope, Mommy Heart, Our Story
You – my growing collection of cells and soul – are active now. My skin hiccuping with the force of your tiny feet, surprised and stretched by your restless strokes. Another son. A loosely formed collection of messes-in-waiting. A sweaty, squeezable...
by Molly Huggins | Dec 11, 2012 | Bug, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Original J
I have been turning this over every possible way in my foggy pregnant brain, deciding how, or if to write about it. Because I am happy, I promise, in the kind of way that you want to freeze and remember when the days are coming hard and fast. When Jaime died, and we...
by Molly Huggins | Dec 3, 2012 | Bug, Christmas, Faith, Hope, Mommy Heart
I’m reposting something I wrote last Christmas {still raw from the loss of Bug} … something that still is so very precious to me. For at least half of the Christmas seasons I have spent as married woman, I’ve been newly pregnant or fresh-grieving the...
by Molly Huggins | Apr 13, 2012 | Bug, Faith, Grief
I’m a wreck today. For a lot of reasons, but suffice to say I am a wreck. I spent an hour scouring the interweb looking for the name of a song I used to listen all the time in the days after Original J died. During that, I found this song. HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT...
by Molly Huggins | Mar 26, 2012 | Bug, Faith
J Girl asked me on Monday morning …. “Mommy, are you going to have another baby?”Ouch. My breath caught, there was a little hitch in my voice …. …. Do you have a particular sin or emotion or issue that you feel like you have surrendered …. but...
