Nothing about Lucas pregnancy or birth was like any of his siblings, and I promise there was one point where I was sure the perinatologist wanted to ask us if we were sure he had the same father as the rest of our kids {yes, absolutely!} because he was measuring so large and all of […]
Capturing the hearts of my girls in 2016
Like a lot of people, the “one word” movement for setting New Year’s resolutions has been one that I’ve embraced wholeheartedly. I love the idea of approaching the new year with a theme that can be summed up in a single word, and I really feel like I’ve grown through the words I’ve chosen in […]
Peace of mind with the Owlet baby monitor
We’ve all done it: Our new baby sleeps longer or more soundly than we expect, and we wake with a start, racing to check on them, afraid of the worst. Only after we see their little chests rise and fall or feel their breath on the back of our hand does our heartrate slow enough […]
Double the snuggles {how we’re juggling a newborn and a toddler}
One of my favorite things about “starting over” with a new baby after our girls were out of the diapers-and-pacis stage was that I was able to soak in Jackson’s baby days as much as humanly possible. On his first birthday, I created a Flipagram of all of the “lap naps” he’d taken, and it was […]
Follow your heart, mama
There’s something to be said for adding a new baby to your family when the rest of your children are out of diapers and school-age. It turns out that it’s an entirely different dynamic than the days of four children under five, more than one baby in diapers and interruptions from multiple kids every night. […]
On obedience and the right to an opinion
NOTE: As we welcome Lucas Isaiah to our family and adjust to life as a family of eight, I’ll be sharing some of my very favorite posts from the thousands of posts in our archives. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed reading back through them once again! Can you teach your […]
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