This second pregnancy has straight-up FLOWN by and somehow we're already to the half-way mark. Even that first trimester before we shared the news where I was nauseous and unable to eat anything other than a few carbs seems like a distant memory as these days I'm back to eating all the things. As you [...]
Fact: Prayer is powerful. I grew up with praying parents and married a praying man and that has made all the difference in my life and outlook on the ups and downs that come with it. So when I became a mama, one of the first things I thought about was how important it was [...]
There are few times in life when you are really surprised, and for me, one of those is discovering you're pregnant, soon followed by learning the baby's gender. With Annie I took four different pregnancy tests before accepting the fact as truth and then when the tech told us we were having a GIRL, well, [...]
In Present Over Perfect, Shauna Niequist talks about “fake rest” and oh am I ever guilty of this. You know, everyone else is napping on Sunday afternoon and instead of napping yourself you decide to take care of business: catch up on laundry, clean the bathrooms, unload and reload the dishwasher, make cookies. After all [...]
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Today's guest post is from my dearest friend of over a decade, Ashley Hartfelder. She is a certified boy mom (the latest little dreamboat born one month ago!), teacher, curriculum-writer and cheese connoisseur. She does all the things and I'm overjoyed she a) found the time to write this piece and b) is allowing me to [...]
