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Sleep
There will come a time where my tiptoe days will draw to a close, where sneaking glimpses of blissful slumber aren’t quite acceptable anymore. And I’ll give them up, embracing what’s to come; I...
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Five
We couldn’t wait to share our little surprise… Baby Frenchie number five is due to arrive December 2015! “Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like...
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To The Mothers.
To the mothers: those who have carried… swollen and round, full and aching, body broken for love, and to those have carried for their sisters, body broken for love. And to those who have laid their...
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Shenanigans
Shenanigans, defined as silly or high-spirited behavior; mischief. Otherwise known as the bedtime routine slash our life.
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Growing
I remember the night I came home from the hospital holding the baby who made me a momma. Walking into the home that had felt so secure just three days before, everything suddenly felt treacherous,...
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Library
While summer is sustained by splashing and sweat, criss-crossing tan lines and popsicle drippings, Kansas is taking her sweet time catching up to the times… And so, we’ve spent a few more days inside...
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Recipe
In case one is looking for the recipe of summer, it’s what we’ve been feasting on these days. A dose of smushed face goggles and a slathering of sunscreen. A splash of wild chaos and a smattering of...
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Sprinkler
Between my two sisters and me, our children have nine best friends that also happen to be cousins. With three more on the way. All three of us are growing a little bump these days, and all three...
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Kit + The Freely Given Movement.
Six months ago, there was a Monday like any other. Except for a little girl Kit, and her parents. Who were changed in a phone call, in a diagnosis, in a day. Diagnosed with Leukemia a few weeks before...
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Tea
Somehow August sneaks up on me every year. Buried under greasy sunscreen and gathering wet towels and losing goggles and back to school commercials jingling my way, every year I find myself scrambling...
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Vacation
A few months ago we’d been just the two of us, stolen away for a time of refreshment, renewal but found ourselves left dreaming of taking the ones we’d made back together to the place that made our...
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Gifts
“I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land… Let me hear in the...
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Grace
“All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.” Isaiah 54:13 In all of the guessing and trying and striving. In all of the hoping and dreaming and praying. In all of our...
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Season
Gold in pockets, air tart cider, Autumn packaged and gifted for the nose and cheeks and senses, but softly too the heart. To be honest, it wasn’t a good day. Without recapping the humanity of every...
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Rosie Grace
I lay there in darkness and silence. Knit together. Designed with intention. The unfolding and curling and swirling within responded. Our child, purposed and adored from the start. Fearfully and...
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Loved
In this childbirth, the tender days, the silent darkness of night, my heart, my calling of mother has been reborn yet once again. I’ve found myself in these reflections every time my children have been...
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Full
Every time you feel in God’s creatures something pleasing and attractive, do not let your attention be arrested by them alone, but, passing them by, transfer your thought to God and say: “O my God, if...
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Sisters
“I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.” -Jo, The Little Women, Louisa May Alcott My two younger sisters and I have only three years between us all. We’ve been raised doing pretty much...
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Christmas
Joy to the world… * The last almost-three-weeks we’ve been hunkered down, cherishing our Rosie’s tinyness while walking the newness of seven, and using the slowness to invest in the roots of us.Our...
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Fifteen
It’s become a welcome sort of ritual for the end of the year, reflecting on the journey, peaks and valleys, embracing the gifts wrapped up in lessons, captured in snapshots of our daily, and ordering...
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