Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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Baby’s First Close-Up

I had to get an ultrasound on Friday at 11 weeks. What I haven’t mentioned in my previous posts about my pregnancy is that there was a possibility I was carrying twins. However, Friday’s ultrasound confirmed there’s just one healthy baby floating around in there. When I first heard my hormones were super high, IRead the whole post >>

· September 21, 2008 · Tagged With: Pregnancy, Pro-Life · Filed Under: Child 3, Photos

Why Moms Say Yes

This is why we say yes to pregnancy-induced nausea and chronic sleep deprivation. This is why we say yes to cutting up food into bite-sized chunks and scraping off high chair crud day after day. This is why we say yes to stretch marks. This is why we say yes to reading Chicka, Chicka, Boom,Read the whole post >>

· September 17, 2008 · Tagged With: Encouragement for Moms · Filed Under: Child 2, Photos

Jackson Pollocks in Training

If you just can’t deal with the mess-factor (and allowing a 15-month-old to paint with her 3-year-old sister was definitely a messy endeavor), let your kids go crazy with the computer mouse and create a virtual Pollock-like painting here.

· September 15, 2008 · Tagged With: Crafts · Filed Under: Boredom Busters, Photos

Captive

Another captured critter… *No animals were harmed or killed in the making of this post.

· August 29, 2008 · · Filed Under: Photos

A Week in the Woods

I mentioned I was taking a blogging break, but what I didn’t bring up was the fact that my family was heading to rural Maine for a much-needed respite. There was no TV. No Internet. No real bathroom (just an outhouse at the end of the pathway through the woods). No distractions (well, except forRead the whole post >>

· August 28, 2008 · Tagged With: Encouragement for Moms · Filed Under: Maine, Photos, Tales from the Trenches, The Great Outdoors, Travel

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Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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