HeyJaredEmma Dorge
I write about motherhood, friendship, and community but mostly how tired I am.
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Tuesday Nights (opens the original)
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I was going to write my essay like I do every Tuesday night, but work has been tough and the weather has finally turned into the kind where we can spend time outside in the evenings without sweating through our clothes.And when the weather is good, bedtime gets pushed. So now Tuesday nights mean a rushed bedtime, then a sprint to the laptop to get whatever has been brewing in my head all week out onto paper.But this Tuesday night, I decided I wasn’t going to write.I told myself I would wake up e
All in a morning (opens the original)
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Our neighbor who lives across the street backed into the babysitter’s car.She had parked on our side of the street, behind his driveway, facing the opposite way of traffic, tucked next to our mailbox.The next week, the babysitter arrived in a rented black mid-size SUV. I watched as she pulled up and parked in the same spot where her car had been hit.Thomas stood next to me as I opened the glass storm door to yell across the front yard. “Flip around and park on the other side of the driveway, fac
The Grocery (opens the original)
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Outside, the heat index was over 100°F, so taking three kids under five to the grocery store seemed like one of the only options to get out of the house.The baby kept sliding down in the shopping cart, so the red Hy-Vee seatbelt got stuck under his armpits.The girls pushed two green mini shopping carts in front of me. I stayed behind them, course correcting their every move.“Girls, pay attention. Do not ram them into her ankles. Keep moving. Please. Girls!”I had spent 20 minutes that morning wri
Tray Lunch (opens the original)
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Caroline walked into our bedroom, where Kate lay sleeping in between us.I rolled over.The clock said 7:12AM. We needed to be pulling out of the driveway at 7:10AM.We immediately sat up and directed the girls to get dressed. I checked on the baby who was just then stirring in his crib.Caroline came back in under a minute, fully dressed, her red polo tucked into her blue athletic skort.By the time we were all dressed and downstairs it was 7:20AM, no time to pack Caroline’s lunch, which for the rec
Four Minutes (opens the original)
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I stood in the small green bathroom while Kate sat on the potty and the baby banged the only pancake spatula we owned on the bathroom walls.Caroline barged in with a green Sharpie and a piece of paper in her hand.“Mom, how do you spell ‘charms’?”“C-h-a,” I began, sidestepping to stop the baby from unrolling the entire toilet paper roll from the dispenser.“Okay, Mom, what’s next?” Caroline said.“R-m,” I continued.All four of us were now in the small hallway
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