Infertility & Adoption – Thy Will Be Done

Happy 10th Birthday, Libby!

Birthdays are always a little hard to believe, but this one is the HARDEST yet! Of course it’s true what they say, and I never doubted it: the years go by in a blink. But TEN?!? That’s a number I just really can’t wrap my mind around. For today (and for all the days), justContinue reading “Happy 10th Birthday, Libby!”

The I-get-tos

I wasn’t able to have you grow in my tummy and care for your every need before you even entered this world. I wasn’t able to be the first, or the second or even the tenth, to hold you tightly in my arms and whisper to you that you’re loved and you’re safe and you’reContinue reading “The I-get-tos”

thoughts || on pregnancy & infant loss ||

Living back in Watertown, just down the road from my high school home, living mere minutes away from teens whose parents live hours or entire states away, being “around” when so many of my high school friends descend on the campus for big event weekends, scrolling through grads and hocos and allllll things high schoolContinue reading “thoughts || on pregnancy & infant loss ||”

thoughts || on Mothers Day ||

This. Read if you’re a pastor. But definitely read if you’re a mother Mothers Day is a million kinds of hard. Mothers Day is a million kinds of good. Every mother has her own story about her own good and her own hard, and it can feel near impossible to say the words, or writeContinue reading “thoughts || on Mothers Day ||”

I Didn’t Know When I Woke Up

May 1 is a day for celebrating in this house. I didn’t know, waking up, that I had just finished my last night of GREAT sleep for many, many years to come. I didn’t know, getting ready for work, that the nursery I walked through would officially be HERS by the time I came homeContinue reading “I Didn’t Know When I Woke Up”

Everywhere You Go

Popping in for a quick second to drop a little sunshine. Because who couldn’t use some extra sunshine? Fun fact: Tuesday was a big deal for a lot of reasons, but in our little corner of the world, it was ALL about celebrating this little beauty’s 9th birthday. Then on Wednesday I was doing thatContinue reading “Everywhere You Go”