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love to love you.
Being a mom is the most amazing, challenging, incredible, humbling, tireless, rewarding, worrisome, wonderful job in the world, and Henry David is the greatest blessing we’ve ever received. But we...
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dear valentine.
Tomorrow will be my 8th Valentine’s Day with you, and in my estimation, the best one yet. Six years ago, I know I thought the same when you called from thousands of miles away–I can still remember...
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twenty nine year salute.
Tonight feels monumental. Not just because I’m closing in on the eleventh hour before another birthday, but because I’m saying goodbye to an entire decade. When I wake up in the morning, I will be...
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matters of the heart. (89)
There are lots of heart matters on my mind tonight. The wedding yesterday, a tear-jerking moment with H earlier this evening, a day later this week to celebrate a friend’s upcoming nuptials, and of...
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looking forward. (28)
There are some things in life we just have on the calendar for a long time–big, life changing kinds of events that we look forward to, or count down to, or set the rest of our days by for a while....
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with this ring. (27)
Little Button, I know that I put you through your paces tonight, but it was all worthwhile :) Someday, I’ll tell you the story of how two people (with very beautiful hearts) met and became friends and...
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well hello, 2015.
I’m not much one for surprises, really, but I do like change. So I like that the new year comes, as expected, every 365 (or 366) days, and I also love that it brings about new beginnings and fresh...
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guilt is a five letter word.
I’m a stay at home mom. I’m a lot of other things, too, but when a new acquaintance asks, “So what do you do?” this is now my reply. It hasn’t always been. I used to work outside of our home, and even...
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co-travelers and bumpy roads.
I woke up at 10:20am today. First let me say, this is not normal. And (quite) thankfully, I’m not ill. A late start wasn’t exactly what I’d planned for today, but when you fall asleep on the couch in...
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date night. (72)
There are a lot of big decisions swirling in our house as of late, and the rate at which we’re catapulting toward baby’s birthday makes all of the weighty things seem weightier. It’s tricky to have big...
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risky fruit. (55)
“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” -Frank Scully Life is full of risk-taking opportunities. I’m not sure I’d say I’m a risk-taker in an adventuresome, thrill-seeking kind of...
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ten things i’m picking up, and what i’m putting down. (46)
I cracked open Jen Hatmaker’s For the Love on the plane home today. It’s been sitting on the shelf for a long while. So often, the words I need to read wait patiently for me. One chapter in, I already...
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tuesday gratitude. (38)
I’ve been sitting alone outside in half sunshine, half shade for the past four hours, which is just about as blissful as it could be. Life doesn’t always feel like it’s so spacious, but for this...
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rest revisited. (27)
I’m not very good at resting. This is a reoccurring theme in my days, made more prominent by the kind of sleep I’m able to get at night this far into pregnancy. There are times when I plow through an...
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the dude-la. (25)
At dinner the other night, our friends asked if we had hired another doula for this upcoming birth. Knowing that our former doula had recently relocated, they were curious whether or not we’d found...
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when the time comes. (23)
I will be thirty seven weeks pregnant tomorrow, so I’m thinking more and more about the big day that’s coming in the very near future. I’m trying to visualize what I hope the experience will be, trying...
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one more step. (21)
Day 21. Something to mark day 21. There are days when I have so much I want to say, and others where my words won’t touch what I’m thinking or feeling by any stretch. Tonight is one of the latter. It’s...
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what does it look like? (12)
It’s easy enough to live in a box. Easy enough to look at how the world does things, or how the people around us do things, and then to lock ourselves into those images and limitations, believing that...
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ten years, motherhood and a much needed latte.
Ten years ago yesterday, I walked down the aisle as a bride. The world felt like one endless possibility stretched out long in front of us. Today I’m admiring waiting white gowns in the bridal boutique...
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It Takes a Little Time Sometimes. (41)
J and I were able to get out on a date Wednesday night–our first in a very long time. We both know we need to date each other more often, but life this past year and a half has been strange for...
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