Love this print by friend and artist Emily McDowell. The quote is by Mohadesa Najumi. Buy it here.
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Emily McDowell’s New Parenting Support Cards are Refreshingly Honest
You can always count on illustrator Emily McDowell to come up with the perfect card. I loved her adorably Awkward series where she wrote these lengthy descriptions of feelings you only think about in your head. This time, she’s tackling a subject that’s near and dear to my heart, parenting.
As a mother of two toddlers under five, sometimes I just want to pull my hair out, I’m so frustrated. Just yesterday, Parker got mad at me for helping him with some homework and chucked a pen at Logan’s eye. I was furious! Luckily, the soft side hit Logan’s eyelid. We reprimanded Parker but I think it left a permanent mark in my heart. How could situations like this happen?
Though Emily just started this series with three cards, we can expect to see more in the spring.
As she wrote, “I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while, because parenting is HARD. And having a baby is like signing up for a 24/7 job at the judgment factory– both from yourself and the world at large. It is 100% possible to both love your kid AND struggle with the day to day realities of parenthood, but so many parents (especially moms) don’t talk about this because they feel like there must be something wrong with them or they don’t want to be judged. But we need to talk about it– because talking helps. And laughing helps. And feeling normal helps.”
I just watched Bad Moms. (It was better than I thought.) These cards remind me of that movie.
New Refreshingly Honest Notebooks by Emily McDowell
You can always count on Emily McDowelll to deliver honest messages on everything she touches, whether that’d be on her greeting cards, her journals, her mugs, her tote bags or her enamel pins. There are six new journals (five are featured here). On the covers you’ll find meaningful messages that will remind you to live an authentic life. My favorite is the first one: Notes for My Future Therapist. The journals contain 125 lined pages, with screen printed chipboard covers, gold foil on the front, and painted page edges.
Recently, Emily came out with enamel pins, too. They’re little badges of things that you’ve conquered in everyday life. (Hence the name Everyday Bravery Pins.) You’ll find pins like Put Myself First, Didn’t Please Everyone, and Survived Indescribable Grief. Why not celebrate the big and small things you’ve accomplished throughout your life?
Hello, I’m Alice Yoo! I’m founder and CEO of Skylar Yoo, a company dedicated to inspiring and empowering women to be bold. We sell apparel, art prints and accessories to the modern feminist.
In my former life, I was editor-in-chief of the art and culture blog My Modern Met, which I founded back in 2007. I curated and wrote about art, design and photography for more than seven years. (In fact, I published over 7,000 articles which were seen by millions of people worldwide.) I’m also co-author of a book called For Love: 25 Heartwarming Celebrations of Humanity, which is on Amazon and wherever books are sold.
I live in southern California along with my husband and my two toddler boys.
This blog is about what I love, the tough experiences that I’ve learned from, and my journey as a second time entrepreneur. Right now, I’m in the midst of a 365 day challenge, to read one book a day. If you share my passions or want to learn some cool new facts, come along for the ride. I hope to inspire, educate and entertain you!
