Author:

heathersweetman

Broken and Content

PTSD

on
August 20, 2020

“Finley, let’s brush your teeth at the sink like a big girl!” I scooped Finley up and wrapped her long legs around my torso. 

“YEAH!” She exclaimed excitedly.

“I’m coming too.”…

Broken and Content

Landscaping

on
August 11, 2020

“Mama, what are you doing?!” My big three stood there, mouths open, shocked by the catastrophic state of the front yard and of their mother. I was covered with…

Broken and Content

Purpose

on
August 7, 2020

“What am I doing?” I say to myself daily. 

“I don’t know, Mama.” My kids often respond. 

I pause, racking my brain why I just came into the kitchen, knowing there…

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Found

on
July 31, 2020

Abandoned. Rejected. Seen better days. Counted as trash. Sitting in a Chicago alley, where disowned furniture finds its way to the land fill, was a forest green, diamond patterned,…

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Collapsed

on
July 24, 2020

“Mama, can I do anything to help?” 

“Thank you…Just get in the van.” I said through clenched teeth as I wrestled a tantrum throwing Finley into her car seat. 

It was…