parenthood

5 Things I Promise You—for When You Make the Big Mistakes.

5 Things I Promise You—for When You Make the Big Mistakes.

I am suddenly overwhelmed and feeling woefully ill-equipped to be your mother, sweet girl.

I feel now much like I felt when you were a newborn and we were leaving the hospital: When I looked around at all the nurses who were actually letting me walk out of the hospital with you, and wondered who was going to teach me how to do this.