The Story I Told Myself to Lift my Spirits While Mothering
The Baby Story
6 min readMay 9, 2022
“Do you want me to tell you The Baby Story?” I asked the curly hair boy tucked in his second-hand toddler bed that I got from a couple who was changing duty stations.
My baby, as if the day had not been arduous. As if I hadn’t lost my cool more times than I cared to remember, nodded his head with so much enthusiasm…
