Kelsey Petersen
Had ourselves a merry little Christmas
I am a little Christmas-obsessed. I mean, I am my mother’s daughter and she has been dubbed The Queen of Christmas...so I’m not bragging...
Search
Kelsey Petersen
- Apr 29, 2020
- 5 min
Lessons learned in the dark
Last night, two things of seemingly little consequence occurred. 1.) My new 800 thread count king-sized sheets finally arrived, and 2.)...
107 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Sep 2, 2019
- 4 min
Apples and Oranges
One day, long before we were parents, I made Michael lasagna. I know it’s kind of difficult to mess up mozzarella-y, beefy, noodle-y...
135 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Apr 6, 2019
- 5 min
See Mom Try: Whole30 Edition
Michael is kind of this super-handsome annoyingly-fit sort of guy. Like, he can just decide to go run a half-marathon without training...
89 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Dec 11, 2018
- 6 min
A Christmas Story
After a couple of weeks of playing pass the sickness, everyone in my family is finally on the up and up. When I realized that it is...
114 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
Slowing Down
Today while I was cooking dinner, you scooted a chair up next to me and climbed up. You told me, “I wanna help you, Mommy.” I was...
70 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Oct 4, 2018
- 3 min
Today was hard, but it was special
There is just something lonely about a Monday morning. It started off early, as most days do, and I felt the weight of the week in front...
126 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
You Are Someone's Everything
In middle-school, it was a look. I wasn't unpopular and I wasn't bullied. But man--- grades six through eight are not for the faint of...
150 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Jul 13, 2018
- 3 min
It's all Poop
I squinted the sweat out of my eyes to look at the stop watch counting down on my phone’s screen. Ten more seconds in plank position....
109 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Apr 13, 2018
- 8 min
A BREASTFEEDING STORY
Near the end of my pregnancy with Ellie, I went to a free one-night class about breastfeeding. I left this class feeling completely...
17 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Feb 24, 2018
- 12 min
SCARLETT MICHELLE: A BIRTH STORY
The day after Ellie’s first birthday party, a Sunday, I was standing in the bathroom at my in-law’s house when I got my positive...
24 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Jan 19, 2018
- 3 min
TO MY FIRSTBORN DAUGHTER
A while back, your dad collapsed on the bed next to me as I was completing my nightly ritual of shoving pillows between my ankles and...
3 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Dec 12, 2017
- 4 min
I FORGOT ABOUT THE BUGS
Now that I’m in Texas, the land that I fantasized about during many long, Idahoy, winters, I realized something about myself—I only...
4 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Aug 29, 2017
- 5 min
PUT ON YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES AND MOTHER THAT CHILD!
This baby of mine. She’s obviously utter perfection. Check out those baby blues, that perfect face, the too-big bow on top of her...
19 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Aug 18, 2017
- 3 min
MOVING COSTS A MILLION DOLLARS
So, I’ve kind of grown accustomed to being a college student’s wife. There are some serious perks, man. For starters, you get to be super...
3 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Jun 7, 2017
- 2 min
A LETTER TO MY GIRL
Dear Elise, Now that you’re one, you toddle around on chubby legs that you clumsily lift high into the air with each step, as if you’re...
2 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Apr 4, 2017
- 4 min
MY FRIEND, MICHELLE
The second time I met Michelle, I was wearing zebra pajama pants and crying. She lived in the apartment next to mine, and she had already...
1 view0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Apr 1, 2017
- 3 min
A LETTER TO MY SUPER SMALL COLLEGE TOWN
Hey, Rexburg, When I first met you back in the fall of 07′, I was a naive, almost 19-year-old college freshmen grounded in my Texas...
6 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Jan 1, 2017
- 3 min
TAKING FLIGHT
Today, we were those people. The ones taking up way too much space in the very back left row of the 737 with our half-zipped carry-on...
10 views0 comments
Kelsey Petersen
- Dec 16, 2016
- 3 min
LIFE IS SNOW GOOD
I sit here typing while my husband and baby nap, watching the snow just come on down like it’s been doing all day. I haven’t seen it...
1 view0 comments