I am, I hope, days away from having my fifth baby. Fully effaced and dilating slowly but surely, my sweet baby boy is making his way Earth-side from what has been a completely heavenly home for him. I believe that we come to Earth fresh from the arms of Heavenly…
View PostClaire started coughing two weeks ago. It was a painful, dry cough — the mean kind. The kind that barks its way out of children’s little bodies, forbidding them to nap during the day or to sleep at night. The kind that makes a mother’s shoulders rise and her eyes…
View PostFor the first time in a long time (or maybe ever?), I am feeling the need to slow way down, to have a close-to-empty plate. Why, I’ve found myself asking. What’s flipping my switch? I’ve always felt the opposite — an emptiness, literally, without a very full plate, both in…
View Post*Post-publishing preface!* If you stop by my blog on your own volition, then you likely already read this post since I originally published it on April 3, 2020. I thought back then that I wanted to share more of my clean swaps stories, like this clean surface spray, but I…
View PostFriends! Where did last week go? When I started sharing our “Teach Yo Tots” at-home lessons over a month ago, I committed myself to getting the posts up by midnight on Sundays so that you can fit them into your week anywhere you want, starting with Monday, so I am sorry…
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