Author: Ashley Blair Smith
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Tell Me, How Do You Feel in Your Body Right Now?
Brutally Honest Postpartum Journal Entries (a series) Saturday May 31, 2025 || 27 Days Postpartum with Flora Kathleen I have been resisting the urge to cover up and hide my new body. I don’t personally feel ashamed of my body, but I worry about how others perceive me and I feel I must stay hidden…
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The Open Door
For the first time in a long time, things felt sweet and safe. I asked myself if I was ready to conceive another child and “disrupt” this little dance we had all learned the steps to. I also asked myself if I was ready to “give up” my body in order to grow another life…
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Feeling Life to the Fullest — Turning 30
Today I am bidding adieu to my twenties and stepping into the new and unfamiliar territory of my thirties. When I was younger, I thought that I would be approaching this date with bated breath, sorrowful to leave the youth of my twenties behind. However, as life would have it, I am feeling almost the…
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The Birth of Lennox Archer O’Malley Smith
The Day Before On the morning of Tuesday, January 11th, 2022, I woke up feeling tired and a little disappointed that I still hadn’t gone into labor yet. After weeks of feeling like I was ready to have this baby, I kept going to bed anticipating that maybe labor would start, and then I would…
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On a Healing Journey
Each year before my birthday I sit down to reflect on my life, where I’ve been, and where I think I’m going. This is that little reflection: ✨ On a Healing Journey ✨ “On a healing journey” is the best way I can think to describe my life right now. Some days I feel like…
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Remembering Maw — Memorial Day Cookout 5/28/2012
Memorial Day Cookout 5/28/2012 — A Personal Journal Entry This is an excerpt from a journal entry of mine from May 2012. I was at a Memorial Day family cookout at Maw’s house. That evening of the cookout I spent time looking at one of Memaw’s (Maw’s mother) scrapbooks and I also remember having a…
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Autumn & Halloween Decor
A new tradition I started with Ellis last year was to pull out all of our Autumn and Halloween decor on (or around) September 10th and start decorating our house for the changing seasons. This year we did the same and I loved seeing the excitement and enthusiasm on Ellis’ face as we began to…
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Answered Prayer
A few weeks ago, God took care of a situation and answered a prayer of mine that I have been praying about for a year now. I still find myself stopping in gratitude as I go throughout my day and taking a moment to thank God for providing and protecting me and my family. I…
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My 27th Birthday
Every year around the beginning of September, right before my birthday, I like to take some time to reflect on the past year and look at what I’ve gone through and how I’ve grown. Last year when I wrote this type of reflection post, I said that 26 had been the hardest year of my…
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First Trimester — Pregnancy Recap
It’s true when they say every pregnancy is different. In a lot of ways, this pregnancy has progressed pretty similarly to my pregnancy with Ellis. But there are some stark differences this time around that have completely caught me off guard. When I was pregnant with Ellis I did a month-by-month update on my pregnancy…
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