This could be my very last pregnancy. After miscarrying, I realized more than ever, that my pregnancy with Barrett could have been my last. My pregnancy with Jonah could have been my last. My pregnancy in January could have been […]
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I’m home this weekend. Not home home. Not where I live. And where Adam and I have our family and our every day life. But Wilber, home. It’s strange, I know…that as a 31 year old I would refer to a […]
So the cat, as they say, is out of the bag. The bun is in the oven. I am packing a peanut. The baby is on the Brehm. Although I am just barely in the second trimester, I can already […]
Today I was the worst. I yelled more than I played. We did more timeouts than story time. I even cried at the dinner table as Jonah edged into minute ten of a non-stop scream-filled tantrum and Barrett told me […]
I lost a baby. I lost a baby. I lost a baby. No matter how you structure those words, they’re hard and weird and wrought with silent emotion. If you’ve talked with me in person since January or you’ve read […]
My four year old can say the sweetest things. I’m rarely short on sharing his tender thoughts. I want to write down the very sweetest of the sweet so as to never ever forget them. Mostly, for the times that […]
He could have been anyone. Two years ago this morning, we had no idea. He could have been Elle or Reese. He could have been Reid or Harrison. And then. Very late in this day… He was Jonah. Our Jonah. […]
I asked Barrett today if he knew why we have Mother’s Day and his response was, “It’s because we love you”. He’s been talking about Mother’s Day all week and he even wrote me a song about it. Barrett loves […]
I had a lot of thoughts prior to having children. Not as much philosophies… like thinking my children will never have a pacifier or my child will never hear no or my children will be multi-lingual by the time they are two. We didn’t […]
