Big changes have come to our home over the last week. We’ve added a new member to our family. It’s been heartbreaking, chaotic, exhausting, but also beautiful. Being able to open up our home to children who need a safe and loving space has been on my heart for years...
The other night I was up again with my sweet baby boy. My eyes could barely stay open from exhaustion and my arms ached from holding him upright as his tiny little body shook from another coughing fit. My heart just breaks for him and I want him to get better. In that...
As I write this from my mother-in-law’s dining room (this is being posted a week and a half later), there are 5 little children and a few adults gathered around the kitchen island as she rolls out dough and prepares cinnamon rolls for breakfast. It’s quiet right now,...
One of our ongoing Christmas traditions is our Christmas Book Basket! This is something my own family did when I was a child and throughout the years we continued to add to our collection. Now we get excited to pull out our Christmas Books and basket after...
We are a few weeks into our pre-k curriculum and I just realized that I never shared this post about our preschool curriculum. We absolutely loved it and it was a highlight for us over the last year. As a former preschool teacher and someone who has considered...
It’s been 2 months now, as a family of 4 and we are just loving it. I am here for it. All the snuggles and sweet baby smiles and coos. Oh, how I’ve missed the newborn and infant stage and feel so blessed to be experiencing it again (although I’ve loved every stage of...
(Read Part 1 Here) By the time we got the paperwork filled out at the hospital, it was shift change, and another girl and I were both laboring in the waiting room together standing or kneeling and leaning against the chairs. It probably was an amusing sight. After we...
The last seven weeks have been full of lots of baby snuggles and adjusting to life as a family of 4. And I’m finally just taking time to write out our birth story. Our (not so) little Kayden, joined us on September 13th at 9 lbs. 3 oz and 22 inches long. We are all...
This summer we have enjoyed some fun family trips, pool days, playdates, and a few field trips, but overall most of our days have been spent at home. They have been filled with dishes, laundry, cooking, other house cleaning, organizing and prepping for the baby, some...
In June, Isa and I flew together to Illinois for a visit with Phil’s family and a baby sprinkle! My sweet sister-in-love, Danielle had reached out a bit ago saying that she wanted to a host a little shower for us to celebrate the long awaited (and prayed for) coming...