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Continue reading →: There Are Things I Wasn’t Prepared for When I Became a Mother
there are things I wasn’t prepared for when I became a mother. how four years later I’d feel sad for my son who loved a beetle-bug he kept in a small pumpkin house or crawling cheerfully on his dinosaur shirt. my son carried this bug so happily, so carefully, but…
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Continue reading →: Fountain of Youth – a poem for turning 30
Earlier this month I turned 30. It was such a beautiful day filled with normal and special moments! My one plan to celebrate this milestone birthday was to put 30 actual candles on my cake. Getting all those birthday candles out and counted made me laugh aloud for the joy…
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Continue reading →: A Peaceful Birth Story – welcoming our 3rd baby
On November 27th we welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Sylvia Colette. But where to even begin? Because there’s so much to say and not very much to say at all, because her delivery was absolutely peaceful and sprinkled with laughter. The hardest part of labor were the weeks leading up…
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Continue reading →: It’s Been Beautiful & Hard – life before our third baby
With less than a week before my due date and everything as ready as can be for our third child, I’m left with time to soak up this season of my life and my family before it all changes. I’m anticipating the change with my foot on the gas pedal.…




