Kelsey Petersen
Salt in the Wound
My inadequacies as a wife are extensive. For some reason though, I was able to evade this humbling truth for exactly 12 months and 29...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jul 5, 20182 min read
On Picking A Good One
Last night I woke up at 3:30 am to Michael handing me a glass of cool water. He does this from time to time, usually because when I have...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jun 30, 20185 min read
While it's Fresh
April 17, 2015 Today wasn't good, and while I want nothing more than to close my itchy-been-cryin'-all-day eyes, I also want to remember...
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Kelsey Petersen
May 29, 20183 min read
THE MOM BOD POST
Sometimes I think that reproduction is a little sexist. I could list all the ways the scales are tipped, but I’m sure you can figure it...
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Kelsey Petersen
May 1, 20184 min read
HEY MAMA, YOU’RE DOING A GOOD JOB.
It’s easy, so easy, for us moms to feel like we are doing it wrong. Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to a brand-new mom. We...
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Kelsey Petersen
Apr 13, 20188 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Feb 24, 201812 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jan 19, 20183 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Dec 12, 20174 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Aug 29, 20175 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Aug 24, 20172 min read
CUTE LITTLE NASTIES
A mom’s life is a charmed life. It’s bows and books and wet kisses and high-pitched giggles and toe-counting, toddler-chasing, fun, fun,...
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Kelsey Petersen
Aug 18, 20173 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jun 25, 20175 min read
ON WHY I LOVE MY CHURCH
Disclaimer: For the most part, I’ve tried to keep my religion out of this blog. My reasoning behind that decision came with wanting this...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jun 24, 20173 min read
BE KIND WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING
I’m sure by now, many of you have seen the video of the Queen of comedy and kindness–Ellen Degeneres–calling out an audience member that...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jun 23, 20174 min read
ON GOOD PEOPLE
Last Thursday I did something I’ve been dreading for a while now—I flew with Ellie all by myself. Michael had an aerospace competition...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jun 7, 20172 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Apr 4, 20174 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Apr 1, 20173 min read
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...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jan 8, 20174 min read
OVERCOMING THE NICE-GIRL SYNDROME
I was the one who asked Michael out first, only I was so bad at it that he didn’t know that’s what I was doing until much later. Like,...
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Kelsey Petersen
Jan 8, 20174 min read
OVERCOMING THE NICE-GIRL SYNDROME
I was the one who asked Michael out first, only I was so bad at it that he didn’t know that’s what I was doing until much later. Like,...
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