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...
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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,...
read more..It’s amazing to think of how much he grew and changed in 2011. In January, before I went back to work, we had our first playdate with some of our adoption buddies: In February we went to Atlanta...
read more..Yesterday morning, as the three of us cuddled in bed, the sun rose in the east. It cast patches of light into our room, including one tiny little square on the wall above our heads. Harry got up on hi...
read more..(Ed: I recently discovered the blog E Myself & I from the Kelly’s Korner holiday home tour. Linking up for the first time with her “midweek confessions.” If you’re visiting...
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