Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

By Dominique M Snedeker

When Dominique Snedeker left her Air Force career destined instead for marriage and family, she had no idea that transitioning from a professional to stay-at-home mom would be so difficult. A life-long dream, raising babies all day, every-day, was a challenge, but admitting this felt like she'd let hersel

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hear Our Voice LLC
• Release date: Apr 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985309867

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Contents

Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

From the back cover

Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Epigraph

Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

Introduction 

Part I.

Motherhood: The Hope for Freedom or I Don’t Know What to Do With Myself

Motherhood: Forgotten Things

Motherhood: The Things I’ve Birthed

Motherhood

Motherhood: Woman Interrupted

Motherhood: What Dreams Have Gone?

Motherhood: From the Leftovers

Motherhood: Primal Longings

Motherhood: A Conversation with Myself

Motherhood: The Badge

Motherhood, What Price?

Motherhood: Momness

Motherhood: Life Before or Self or…

Motherhood: Weighed in the Balance

Motherhood: The Awakening

Part II.

Motherhood: From This Moment

Motherhood: Visions of Yet to Come

Motherhood: All the Past in One Moment

Motherhood: Your Mother

Motherhood: That Feeling in Your Legs When They Twitch

Motherhood: Time, A Costly Thing

Motherhood: Moonbeams on Your Cheek

Motherhood: Empire of Lost Toys and Socks

Motherhood: Then vs. Now in a Boxing Match

Motherhood: My Very Own Tickets

Motherhood: The Price of Time

Motherhood: Wild Things

Motherhood: Emotional Coffee

Part III.

Motherhood: PE=mgh (Potential)

Motherhood: Of Innocence Protected Instead of Lost

Motherhood: Everything (The Greatest Responsibility)

Motherhood: Masterpiece in Sweats

Motherhood: Washed Away

Motherhood: Renurturing

Motherhood: The Beauty of Imperfection

Motherhood: The Counterweight

Motherhood: The Long Game

Motherhood: The Scales Fall Like Tears…

Motherhood: Transmogrified

Motherhood: Maternal Circle

Epilogue: Again, Again—Again!? Another Fork in the Road

= Pregnancy Test

How Did I Forget?

Entwined Like Roots of the Same Tree

From Eve to Me

Now…All Together or Once More into Motherhood or We’re All in This Together

Welcome Home Little One

The Refining Fire of Motherhood

The Road Carefully Chosen

Motherhood: The Resolution

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

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Becoming a mother—the breaking.

Becoming the woman—a remaking.

From the back cover

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Standing at the mirror

Hair askew and tank stretched and spotted

With who knows what

I see nothing but blurry lines

And eyes I do not know.

The shock startles me and I wonder:

Where is the mother in the woman?

Where is the woman in the mother?

The question surprises me and I

Bump my head as I stare

Into unknown eyes, exploring

A woman I’ve forgotten

Or traded

For those sleepers flopped

Like puppies in bed.

The woman before the breaking

Must have been me.

I can’t remember now

What solitude and papercuts

Feel like. But the paci on the sink

Warms my heart—

Little Eyes and fingers and toes

Flood my body with warmth

And a gummy smile with

One, two, what eight? little teeth

Makes my chest tight.

The mother is here.

And somewhere,

So is the woman.

Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

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Dominique M. Snedeker

Published by Hear Our Voice LLC

Copyright

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First edition of this book was published April 2022 by Hear Our Voice.

Motherhood: The Crucible of Love

Copyright ©2022 by Dominique M. Snedeker

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. For information contact Hear Our Voice LLC http://www.hearourvoicellc.com

ISBN 9798985309867

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Cover Design: Dominique M. Snedeker