“Wow, I’m amazed you can get them to keep their hats on,” said a mom beside me. I was pushing the boys on the swings and she was swinging with a little girl much younger than my boys. “It’s been a long time comin’,” I laughed. And then I was immediately transported back to the [...]
In our room, there’s a little collection of things that belong to the boys. I keep it on the dresser by the door to remind myself to return them to the nursery or to their play area where they belong. Little socks that find their way into our laundry. Toy cars left behind by constant [...]
April marks one year since I said, “Not no mo,” to breastfeeding. Actually, my birthday was the day I made the selfish decision to take steps toward a mentally healthier me (and if you can’t be selfish on your birthday, when can you?) and stop all breastfeeding and pumping. The second picture is a pretty [...]
Upon finding out I was pregnant, I never thought about a c-section. I never planned that for myself. But I never planned for twins, either. As one might expect, twins changed a lot about my expectations surrounding birth and breastfeeding. Because there is so much risk and unexpected events involved with twins, things always seemed [...]
After the vast amount of renovations the house underwent in 2021, we began to realize that all the newness almost highlighted all the...well, all the dull, faded “oldness.” While the bathrooms were not terrible to look at, it was the cabinets that presented a more structural issue. It was impossible to baby-proof said cabinets because [...]
"The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety." Psalm 18:2 I've felt the weight of this verse on my heart lately. Let me tell you-the toddler season is a [...]
During this renovation journey, our patience, our parenting skills and our marriage was tested. It was a never-ending juggling act between Jimmy and me. We were constantly trading and adjusting our roles and responsibilities as husband&wife, mom&dad, shared homeowners, working spouse & stay-at-home mom. But, as is life’s constant reminder, the universe does not operate [...]
During this month or two of post-storm waiting, we had been house-hopping every few weeks (with an energetic puppy, two almost six-month-old babies, our pack-n-plays, our boxes of diapers, our baby toys, our children's belongings, my belongings and my husbands belongings) between my mother-in-law's house and my mom's house. Before you question why we wouldn't [...]
The six month journey from storm damages to a completed, large-scale renovation is a long story to tell. I have decided to break it up into parts. Each part of the journey that I share will showcase one of the rooms or one of the spaces that received a renovation. In this blog post, I [...]
You're scrolling, scrolling, scrolling through your Instagram feed and I know what you see: beautiful photos of beautiful families. They're running through fields of grass, laughing, holding hands. And your eyes search her out: the mother. She's beautiful and etherial. She's probably wearing a flower crown and her long prairie dress is blowing in the [...]
Outnumbered 