Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

  First of all, I cannot begin to thank you enough for the grace, the prayers, and the love you have dumped on us after this most difficult post. Each and every comment was read with tears of thankfulness for your kind words, and grief for your own losses. I wish we didn’t have to …

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A Chapter to Our Story That We Didn’t Want to Write…

It was a Monday morning in November that started out with me oversleeping and Brad getting the boys ready for their school day. I awoke with swirling “what ifs” and questions that have haunted me throughout my infertility journey.  Despite being years down the road from being in the thick of the infertility battle, it’s …

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Seven

Today we celebrate seven years of life with these amazing blessings. D-Day (Delivery) seems like a lifetime and yesterday rolled into one. It was a day of joy, relief, fear, elation, and anticipation, and we knew life would never, ever be the same again. What a wild ride these last seven years have been! We …

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5 Books I’m So Glad I Read in 2013…

I’ve had some downtime over these long days, which has given me a little time to do some reading. In the busyness of the end of the year, my beloved Kindle had been neglected on my nightstand. Although these have been some of the most difficult of days, I’m thankful to find a little quiet …

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Surviving Snowmageddon and Polar Vortex 2014

Hey it’s me again. Dusting off the laptop after a much needed little reprieve from the internet, and letting you know that we are ALIVE. In the past few days we have survived both Snowmageddon (with around 12″ of snowfall) and now the Polar Vortex, that has us experiencing temperatures colder than the North Pole …

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New Year’$ Resolutions: Making Goals That Make Cents

Can you believe 2014 is just countdown hours away?  A new year is upon us, and it’s a perfect time to reflect on 2013 and make goals for 2014.  We often make fitness goals, personal goals, even spiritual goals, but often neglect looking at the thing that keeps the world going around. MONEY.  What financial …

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A Perfectly Imperfect Christmas

This year hasn’t been the picture-perfect Christmas by any stretch.  There’s many things left undone, traditions skipped, and not everything has went as planned.  Laying in bed most of the week last week with a respiratory illness was difficult when there were presents to wrap, Christmas cards to be sent, neighbor gifts I wanted to …

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Ornamental Memories…

Don’t you love how so many ornaments hold a story?  The tradition of hanging them on the tree isn’t just for looks or for show. They hold memories. Memories from our childhood, that turn into memories shared with our own children. This fall, I had a couple of minutes between writing at a nearby coffee shop …

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