Sidewalk Chalk

byanniemd007
Sep 11,22
Babies, childhood trauma, College Visits, Empty Nest, Loss, Love, Married Life, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood, Plus Size Plastic Surgery

Puerto Backyarda

I guess I’m predictable. Sometimes, anyway. I’m all in my feelings about taking my baby girl to college at Cal Poly SLO in two days. Two more sleeps with us. One more sleep in her own bed in her own room. Then one night in a hotel in Pismo Beach,…

byanniemd007
Aug 05,22
abandonment, childhood trauma, Love, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood, Plus Size Plastic Surgery

Bits and Pieces 🖤

I wish I could remember my childhood in chronological order so I could tell you a story from start to finish. But I can’t. I try, but it’s all jumbled up. I try thinking about it year by year, grade by grade, but we moved and I changed schools so…

byanniemd007
May 08,22
Grief, Middle Aged Women, Mommy Makeover, Motherhood

Sidewalk Chalk and Motherhood

All I ever wanted to be was a mama. A mama like my own who taught me to love with my whole heart. Like my friends’ moms whose homes I wished I lived in, with art projects and homemade pesto and string cheese and secret staircases. Like the moms that…

byanniemd007
Aug 20,21
College Visits, Empty Nest, Love, Middle Aged Women, Motherhood, Road Trip

Stolen

Some of my happiest days have been spent with a carload of kids, going from one activity to the next. When they were small, it was Fairy Tale Town and the Zoo, the train museum and the fishy store. It was hopping from park to park and car singing and…