Marco Polo and Motherhood

By Kita Kanazeh

Imagine with me for a second that life is one huge game of Marco Polo. Your inner self is screaming out to you, begging you to respond. The little girl inside you is begging for you to do something that makes you happy-ride your bike, take a walk through the park, enjoy life. "Marco!" The overachiever inside you is begging that you do something that makes you feel accomplished-write that chapter in your book, dress up and attend that meeting, make that important phone call. "Marco!" The athlete version of you is pleading, "Let's go to the gym today, go for a hike, run." "Marco!" You are so beautifully complex. You have needs. Many, I'm guessing. It is time to stop putting those needs on the shelf. It is time to find you again. Are you ready, Mama? "MARCO!" <3

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098030575

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Marco Polo and Motherhood

Kita Kanazeh

Copyright © 2020 by Kita Kanazeh

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Table of Contents

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Quiet as a Mouse

Hype Girl

Overcaffeinated/Underappreciated

Playing Dress Up

Get Lost

Jack-in-the-Box

A Box of Crayons

I Like to Move It, Move It

We Are Gathered Here Today

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my tribe, my soul sisters, the beautiful group of women that I am so blessed to have walk beside me on this journey of motherhood.

To my wonderful husband and the father of my baby boy. Without your love and support this book wouldn’t exist.

And to my perfect son. Without your efforts this book would have been released six months earlier! Love you, baby boy.

Chapter 1

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Mirror, mirror on the wall.

I don’t know this girl at all.

The one obsessing to be more thin, more tall.

The one that’s crying in the bathroom stall.

The one who now lets insecurities make her feel so small.

Mirror, mirror, I don’t like this girl at all.

When did it happen? When did you change? Can you pinpoint a time where this big transition took place? I’m guessing (if you’re anything like me), probably not for at least two reasons: (1) being mommy brain, duh, and (2) [the most important factor] because it didn’t happen overnight. Do you think you went to a bed one night a well-rounded, self-loving, self-care conscious, energetic, happy-go-lucky, brunch with the girls attending, church volunteering, athletic, gym junkie, goal-setting, goal-crushing, on-top-of-the-world, carefree girl, and thanks to some misfortunate twist of fate, wake up the next morning a frazzled, unpolished, leftover-chicken-nugget eating, hasn’t seen her friends in weeks, fifteen-minute late to church, gym skipping, overly caffeinated, under stimulated, needs a pedicure, two-inch roots exposed, grumpy, tired, dark circled eye monster? I don’t know your story, but that isn’t how it worked for me.

It took a lot of effort to become that monster! It took canceling on myself over and over to become that monster! It took missing multiple girl dates (because I was too busy), skipping the gym weeks on end (because I was just too tired). The list could go on and on.

I have another question for you: Can you pinpoint a time and place where you noticed for the first time how far you’d let yourself slip?

I absolutely can!