mommy

“Is mommy still at the hospital?” one of his sons asked.

Not because those words aren’t fitting descriptors for Ani, but because she’s far more complex than a couple of attributes you can pull from the etymology section of a mommy blog.

She did not personally experience any "mommy brain" during her pregnancy but was certainly more tired and emotional in the third trimester, she says.

“She’s been along with me on this journey pretty much my entire career. She’s kind of seen the ups and downs of mommy’s life. So I’m just grateful to have her here, yeah.”

“These students hadn’t even started yet, so it looked like they were all dressed up in their mommy’s clothes, pretending. And it broke my heart, because I was like, ‘There it is.