ℓιsα 🌸 Colormeboldly

If you think 2 daycare workers can raise 20 kids for other people effectively, but you don't think a mother of 3 can manage a home and kids without her husband constantly "helping"... You have been brainwashed.

Here’s my last post on this topic. Some of you really love shaming people for having dogs instead of kids. But what if you knew their real story? What if you knew that I was pregnant in this photo was taken? With a very wanted and very loved child? A human baby. Inside me right there. What if I told you that I wanted my baby to live so badly because I thought it would give my mom hope to fight cancer? And what if I told you my baby died anyways. And there was nothing I could do. And my mom died **on** Mother’s Day, mere weeks after my baby died, and then my dog Abbey died 14 days later, and then I had cancer and had to get skin grafts on my face, and then my grandfather— the man who loved me most in the whole world died, and then I was injured at work and lost my career— and all that happened within 9 months? And then —on the tenth anniversary of my mom dying all the mean girls come out of the woodwork saying “you’re not a mom” and try to insult me with “dog mom” and try to shame me and others— for what? Because our kids died? Because we have pets who helped us through the grief? I never called myself a “dog mom” ever. But you try to hurl it at me like an insult? The dog in this photo (Kuma) SAVED MY LIFE— she was with me when I miscarried (twice), when mom died, when grandpa died, when I was sick with cancer and alone. She was also with me the day I got engaged, the day I graduated college, and the day I got married. So forgive me for loving a dog when my arms that were meant to hold my babies were empty. Forgive me. But don’t you dare think because my kids died they were not loved, or that I wasn’t a mom, or that I can’t celebrate the people in my life who have been Mothers to me since mine died. Don’t you dare think that because I have a dog I ever put that dog above the human children in my life— the one that today calls me “mom” even though I didn’t birth her. Don’t you dare think I wouldn’t have traded every pet in my life to hold my babies living rather than dead. And don’t you dare think this couldn’t have been your life too. Because you didn’t make your baby, God did. And He can take what you love at any time—I know. Nothing is guaranteed. Life is SHORT. So have some grace. And instead of trashing some stranger on line because they love a dog, maybe ask yourself how many people they loved and lost in life to make the company of a dog matter this much to them? Because I wouldn’t wish that on you. And on Mother’s Day? I can celebrate my mom, and the children I lost, and the mother I try to be for a girl who has none. And yes, I can also love my dogs too — and if that “offends” you, then walk a mile in my shoes— and pray you don’t rapidly lose everyone who you love at the same time. Because time is short. And there are no guarantees in this life. All your kids and parents and loved ones could be gone in 9 months and you’re left holding a dog.

College is expensive because every millenial INSISTED they get to go. The boomers spent a ton so they could go. This was not the case in the boomers day. They understood natural hierarchy and sorted themselves appropriately. Their big sin was liking their children too much.

College is expensive because every millenial INSISTED they get to go. The boomers spent a ton so they could go. This was not the case in the boomers day. They understood natural hierarchy and sorted themselves appropriately. Their big sin was liking their children too much.

College is expensive because every millenial INSISTED they get to go. The boomers spent a ton so they could go. This was not the case in the boomers day. They understood natural hierarchy and sorted themselves appropriately. Their big sin was liking their children too much.

My biggest fear is gaining too much weight when I’m pregnant I constantly see women saying they exercised multiple days a week and ate healthy and still gained 50+ lbs and it terrifies me Maybe that’s just vanity idk

Your best defense against any disease is a healthy body. Not a vaccine.

Why would a 7-year-old be prescribed anti-depressants? 😳