The first trimester of every pregnancy is a roller coaster ride.  You're so happy and excited while also being worried and terrified.  Yo...

How do you know you're done having kids? This is one of those life questions that has a really annoying answer: you just know.  It's simi...

It is always so interesting to look at things in hindsight.  Sometimes it allows us to see things more clearly because we are on the othe...

When you are trying to conceive (whether for the first time or the 10th time) it's really hard to have patience.  Generally I am an impat...

Don't send out that SOS - I am still here!  I know it's been more than a hot-minute since my last post but I've got good reasons - Beth (...

The community in which we choose to live in is an extremely important decision. This community will be the family, friends, co-workers, c...

I've said a few times already - this has all been harder to write about than I expected.  For a while I've been wrestling with that state...

When my husband (David) and I decided we wanted to start our family we had been married for nearly 5 years already.  We got married at th...

I realized as I re-read my first post that I was kind of vague about why motherhood has caused such a massive shift in my life.  So in th...

I'm sure a lot of people start their blogs saying this, but I never would have thought that I would ever want to write a blog.  There are...