Alison Malee

This post is sponsored by Nature’s Way® Motherhood is messy and staggeringly beautiful. It is overflowing with great joy, laughter, tenderness, and immeasurable responsibility.

You can be a great many things.

How do you define family? Is it a limited view? Is it blood and blood alone?

Dedicate a specific amount of time each day to it, channel your love and your creativity into it, build it from the ground up.

Beauty can, should be, and is whatever we say it is.

the sky is only the highest you can reach if you do not accept the possibility of potential beyond what is known to your own two eyes. 

it is either the gasoline or the match. the heaviness of something foreign, or the quick spark that lights a fire.

i have loved you for an instant. for every instant. for a lifetime. 

You belong here in this wild adventure of a life. Nothing that is ever thrown your way can crush you.

Remember, that this day, this hour, will never happen again. Take each moment as it comes and be present.

Because kindness runs rampant, still, despite hatred.

Live life like it will end one day. Because it will. Time is not unlimited. Time is the one resource you have that will truly and utterly expire.

I hope someday you feel so loved that there is no room in your life for this kind of hurtful energy.

Remember that no opportunities will come to you if you aren’t out there searching for them.

I want to learn to embrace the parts of myself that often make me feel alone, that often make me want to isolate myself further.

This time though, this time I am ready. I am making peace with my enemies and cleaning out my attic.

Stop seeking validation from other people. Your worth is not, and never will be in this life, based on what others think about you.

What I would give to know you, know your face, know your hands. To feel the electricity between us and know it cannot be anything but the forever kind of love.