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Encouragement for the Road Ahead
Motherhood is such a funny thing. When you're in the trenches, you want so badly to be out of them. When you're not in them, you long to...
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Life with Three: What's Different
So far, life with three kids isn't much different than life with two. The girls are fairly close in age (22 months) so they've been their...
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The New Normal
Some snippets of our life lately as we adjust to our new normal! Cutting up a pineapple AND sending an email and feeling incredibly...
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While I Wait: Filling the Easter Baskets
Hello again! Still here waiting on baby. He's not late yet so I don't want to make the statement that ALL my children keep me waiting,...
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Focus + Waiting for Baby
Hello! I haven't meant to be away so long again, and have started and abandoned multiple posts, but am too tired, pregnant, and busy...
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Today I'm Feeling...
Calm and tired. Thinking it's time Nick moves into the guest room so I can spread out and hopefully get some sleep before this baby...
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A Good Year
Happy almost new year! I hope 2017 was a good one for you. It was a good one for us. I am sitting here at the computer, cozy in my house,...
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Finding Peace at Christmas
It's funny because as I sat down to write this morning, I noticed my last post, from a month and a half ago, was sitting unpublished in...
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Contentment + News
Hello! I haven't meant to be away for so long. I've just been...busy? Yes, but not really more than usual. Pregnant? Oh yes, I haven't...
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Sayonara Summer
Summer flew by, much to my surprise and delight. It was a good one, and it was nice to cap it off with two end-of-summer trips, first to...