From another chapter: I am a mother (x2)
Part of my From Another Chapter series Originally posted on January 21, 2011 I am a mother (x2) It’s official. And right now being a mother is almost literally all I am. My house is the dirtiest it has...
View ArticleBeth says: Comparison is the enemy
+ As you know, I’m having a baby (maybe it happened by the time you read this, maybe I’m just too big to reach the keys anymore) so I won’t be blogging as much for awhile. In the mean time some friends...
View ArticleMy bedside table
Wow, it’s been a long time since I did one of these. But here I am, stuck in a dark bedroom periodically popping a pacifier back into the mouth of an overtired and almost asleep baby [I wrote this last...
View ArticleMy bedside table
Just for the record I’ve been trying to write the post(s) about what’s really in my head, on my heart, going on in our lives, but I can’t seem to get the words out the way I want. I’m just too tired....
View ArticleMy kids + dogs = recipe for disaster
The twins were finishing up snacks, the sun was shining and all the doors and windows are open. We had a bit of time before Norah needed to take a nap so I suggested one of our favourite low-commitment...
View ArticleThe someone who is missing
This may be the hardest post I’ve ever had to write. When I’ve posted in the past about my own personal struggles and heartbreak it was hard to put it out there. But that was my own journey, somehow...
View ArticleThe juice cleanse that lasted less than a day and what it revealed about me...
Yesterday I started a juice cleanse (or smoothie cleanse, it wasn’t just juice so I don’t really know what you call it) and by supper time I stopped. Even for me that’s quitting something kind of...
View ArticleClearing off my bedside table
I wish this was referring to my real life bedside table which is currently a metal folding chair which I thought was a genius idea a la Pinterest until I discovered almost nothing could be less...
View ArticleSix months later
Today is not an easy day. Today we’re remembering that six months ago our sweet nephew Owen Henry was born but that we knew already we wouldn’t meet him in this life. How do you miss someone you never...
View ArticleFull hands
If there is one thing that has been said to me more than anything else, starting the day I first walked out the door with the twins in the stroller and has only increased now that I’m outnumbered three...
View ArticleTogether for Adoption
I attended this conference three years ago and it was life-changing. I sat in the sessions, quietly knowing I was pregnant with our youngest and thinking okay, I probably can’t adopt now, so now what?...
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