One of the things that surprised me after becoming a mother was that I thought that all of the pain and longing that I experienced during our wait and during our struggle with infertility would vanish...
read more..Sweet honey, 14 months old already! It snuck up on me. I realized, oh! It’s the 19th! You have a new cousin who was born today. The 19th is a good day to be born, I told her mama. You are growin...
read more..This giveaway is now closed. Winner listed below. When we first started cloth diapering, the only local store option I knew of was way over in St. Paul. Not a terrible drive, but not terribly convenie...
read more..Somehow it’s already Friday night. I am snuggled up in two blankets, because I am fighting a cold, and because Minnesota finally feels like Minnesota this winter. Last Saturday I told Aaron that...
read more..I stand him on top of his changing table so that he can look in the mirror that hangs above it. When I dreamt of a nursery, of his nursery, this is what I saw in my mind’s eye. The two of us, ha...
read more..I can’t believe New Year’s was less than a week ago. It feels like it’s been 2012 for awhile now, right? We spent NYE at a friend’s house with six kiddos ages 1 to 8. It was su...
read more..I don’t typically make resolutions, but this year, I am. The thing about life is that there is good and bad in every year. Some lean more heavily one way or the other, of course, but as a whole,...
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