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 | Feb 20, 2013 | Mommy Heart, Thankful, The Dailies, Wee Man
Happy second birthday Wee Man. My sweet wild boy. It’s 10:11 pm, I can barely keep my eyes open … we {me, your sister, one set of grandparents and my Aunt K.} spent all day baking and sewing and playing and generally wreaking havoc. You hammered on a lot...
by Molly Huggins | Feb 10, 2013 | Faith, Hope, Mommy Heart, Thankful
Surely God is good. I have said it … will say it … over and over. Every moment of this unknowable journey. In the face of incomprehensible pain, grief, and even anger. And it is true, even then. God is good. But today, I’m happy to just say it because it’s...
by Molly Huggins | Jan 20, 2013 | Faith, Fear, Mommy Heart, Thankful
My heart is seizing up in my chest. I am terrified. Of what, you say? Being a parent. Now, I realize that this may be a wee bit delayed, seeing how that train left the station on or about July 30, 2007. But it’s happening now. Let me back up to Thursday. I was that...
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 | Nov 1, 2012 | Faith, Mommy Heart
{Editor’s Note: I almost didn’t write this, because I am afraid it will come across as passive-aggressive compliment fishing … but then I read this, about a new kind of pretty, and I wanted to tell you how I am really feeling. And how I am really dealing with...
