Time for another edition of La Dolce Sunday. Where I give a shout out to the coolest stuff I came across this week!
Let’s just get this one out of the way: Is this the greatest t-shirt ever? Yeah, pretty much. It’s from the Trendy Sparrow on Etsy.
Billy and I had a rough Mother’s Day so I felt justified in paying the $40 for it. Yeah, I’m super mature like that.
As for my favorite blogs of the weeks…
This was a beautiful and uplifting piece about losing and finding your mother by Jessica Hoover:
It frightened me how the grief choked me to my core. 38 weeks pregnant, lying on my bed fending off a cold and all the questions rolling around in my brain. Sobs rocked my body and threatened to crack me down the middle.
My husband tenderly asked me what was the matter and after what felt like a short eternity of tear filled gasps I managed to lisp out, “I just miss my mom so much. I want her to be here to take care of me.”
My mom didn’t die last year. No, she died when I was twelve. I’ll be thirty-one in two weeks.
Colleen at Blessed are the Feet has a fantastic piece this week about celebrating your kid’s growing up instead of bemoaning it.
And all I could think was how I wanted to gather all the mamas who have walked this journey with me and are snapping shots of these almost adults and shake them and say, “Y’all! We did it. I mean, not all the way, but we are doing this thing! This motherhood thing. And we are doing a darn good job too! Look at these amazing people we grew inside ourselves and then grew outside ourselves and who are now almost all grown! They are incredible. And we raised them!”
Yes, we will grieve for their growing up and growing away, but, mamas, this was the thing all along. And we are rocking it!
And finally, let’s all take a moment of silence for this beautiful ponytail. I just couldn’t take the heat anymore and chopped it off.
