The Balancing Act

Mar 3
Mar 3 100th Day

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Family, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Working Mama

Jan 25

Jan 25 10 and 6

Adrienne Barnard

Birthday Letters, Ava, Emilio, Family, Messy Reality, Motherhood

Feb 9

Feb 9 Wake Up Calls

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Attachment Parenting, Balance, Family, Emilio, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

“…and there I found myself on the couch with both these small people cuddled on me. It felt like exactly where I was supposed to be. Exactly where I am.”

Dec 31
Dec 31 Leaving Great Wolf Lodge

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Ava, Balance, Emilio, Family, Fathers, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Travel with Kids, Vacation

I want the world for these children I birthed and raised so far. And clearly, going away and spending time together as our Family awakened this knowledge in me. Something I already strived for, but a deeper sense of it was cracked wide open inside of me.

Dec 4

Dec 4 Ava - 4

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Birth Stories, Birthday Letters, Family, Motherhood, Natural Birth, Parenting

And that my dear is who you are. Firm in what you want. Not afraid to speak your mind. And absolutely in charge.

Sep 11

Sep 11 Delicious

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Balance, Family, Emilio, Fathers, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

The delicious life that is created amongst the everyday.

Jul 6

Jul 6 A babe in my bed

Adrienne Barnard

Balance, Ava, Attachment Parenting, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Sleep

As we transition the last baby out of our bed…

Apr 27

Apr 27 Credit where it's due.

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Attachment Parenting, Family, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

How kids teach us what The Secret sold to us, with a story about pink cake.

Mar 12

Mar 12 Postpartum Realness

Adrienne Barnard

Ava, Balance, Emilio, Groundlessness, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting, Postpartum Body

My body. My journey.

Feb 20

Feb 20 A Girl

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Ava, Balance, Family, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

The pink blur of the ride, with Ava.

Jan 10

Jan 10 3

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Ava, Birthday Letters, Family, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

To Ava, who is 3.

Nov 13

Nov 13 The Blue Spruce

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Ava, Balance, Fathers, Family, Grief, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

"I stood where my Dad took his last breath. I stood and held you, my growing child and felt your breathing. Your steady, consistent, sleeping breath. I know how fragile life is. And I don't run away from it. You can't. Isolation is more painful than living and loving deeply knowing it can all be gone far sooner than you'd expect, or want, or think. "...