So how do we make peace with our “sister lives”? How do we salute them from shore, and then enjoy the one we received? Nataliya offers us sage advice. “We must focus on what we do have," she says, “and not what we don’t.” In her case, she focuses on the blessing of having a daughter to share conversations, board games, TV shows, and laughter with. As well as the capacity to pursue her own talents and skills (she’s an incredible photographer).
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Lindsay and her husband welcomed their darling daughter, Jo, in the spring of 2020. It was an anxious time for many of us, but especially so for Lindsay, who had to face the unknowns of a pandemic while caring for a newborn.
Read MoreElise has many gifts as a mother, but there is one, in particular, I have witnessed over and over. She effortlessly lets her boys be themselves in situations where so many of us would want to control and reign in our kids.
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