Carrie Saum

Spring is fully coming to life this month.

Can we talk about self-care for a hot minute?

I kind of hate it.

I didn't have even an ounce of energy to spare to process my own feelings. Everything I had went to my son.

Trail mix is a quick way to keep me from having a full-on hunger meltdown. I find it easier to whip up a batch of my own so I can control the ingredients and the quality.

We had no turkey, no casserole dishes heaped sweet potatoes or creamy green beans, no pies made from scratch, no beautiful table settings or nice dishes to heap our non-existent feast upon.

My BFF has been trying to go easy on the grains lately.

Oh, you say you’re making this for your neighbor who just had a baby and a traumatic birth experience and you want to be an Exceptional Neighbor and bring her post-partum love and healing in a warm, bubbling cake dish? Fantastic. Just make sure to eat half of the cobbler straight out of the pan first, and then transfer it to another pan and pretend it’s meant to look like a pan of berry mush.

Motherhood didn’t pan out the way I anticipated, not even a little bit. It was so much more electrifying and terrifying and amazing than I ever imagined.

You are more than a body; you are more than your achievements and goals. Here are three resolutions that have nothing to do with your body.

I knew it was bound to happen.