One of my favorite things to do is to hold Catherine while she sleeps. When I do, I often think, "I consider it the greatest privilege of my life just to hold you while you sleep." After hearing that phrase over and over again in my head, I started wondering why holding my sweet sleeping babe… Continue reading Here in My Arms
'Tis the season of love, am I right? With Valentine's Day just around the corner I thought I'd take a moment to spotlight my Valentine and why I love him so very much. He's been the best supporter I could have asked for over the past year or so as we've made the transition to… Continue reading 14 Things I Love About YOU
I haven't been keeping much of a journal or writing letters to you all throughout the pregnancy. I have been trying to take a picture each week but even that is hit or miss. Bad mom, I guess? But I realized on Sunday that there is something I hope you always know. You have a… Continue reading Dear Child,
Last year when I wrote about my Mom on Mother's Day last year I intended for it to be the first in a series of posts about my family. Well we all know how good I am at finishing a post series. (Ahem, the love story series.) I thought I would pick it back up again this… Continue reading My Dad
I've talked to a few of you over the past few days, and I've seen the weight of the burden that you're carrying. I can see how hard you're working at this thing called motherhood. I will join your team soon, but right now I'm on the fence watching from the sidelines and have a… Continue reading To My Dear Mom Friends…
Wow, our Hillbilly Days Food Guide got more traffic than almost every other post I have written in the past 5 years combined. As a result, Andy and I are considering leaving everything we know to become traveling fair food reviewing vagabonds. Just kidding, but you could do a lot worse in life. I am mostly… Continue reading Grace in Every Breath
The internet was ablaze this morning with news and opinions about both Officer Wilson and Michael Brown. It is more than one person can adequately digest. Accusations flying everywhere from news media, religious groups of all stripes, and scores of thoughts being put out there on blogs like this one. So for me to even… Continue reading A Sister of a Police Officer Reacts to Ferguson
This semester I am teaching a section of First Year Studies at UPIKE. It is a class that is geared toward helping students transition from high school to college and helping them feel at home on campus. One of their first assignments is to write a letter to themselves that they will turn in this… Continue reading A Letter to Myself as a College Freshman
Everybody's got one but not everyone has a good one. I am one of those people that got blessed with a good one. But I don't think I really started to appreciate how good a Mom she was and is until the past few years. I've always loved her, but I wasn't able to understand how… Continue reading Mothers.
This is post 7 of 7 for the 7 posts in 7 days challenge! It felt like I was scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to say sometimes (there's a reason I only post 4-6 times a month) but I think it was a good challenge. I did get 7 posts up in… Continue reading The Things That Make A House Our Home
