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Everyone struggles with guilt. This feeling that we should have done something a different way. Made a different choice. Acted in a kinder way. Said it a different way. Or should have not said anything at all. Guilt. Then there is this guilt when we think… Did my child have too much screen time today?…
The journey to meeting our baby girl: On Saturday, I was starting to think that “the day” was coming! The day we had been praying for, for so long! That night, we were at a friend’s house and I started to have some contractions. That night, I woke up about 4 times with them and…
This past fall, we were given the beautiful and treasured gift of family pictures, but let me tell you the story! One night, after being in the hospital more than out the past few weeks, I couldn’t fall asleep (which was common for me from all the meds). I kept thinking about wanting to have…
It had been 3 years. Three years too long, since I had been at the big house. Living in Minnesota especially, I wasn’t sure when the next time I would make it back to the Big House, but when Dan told me he really wanted to get back for his annual fishing trip with friends,…
Motherhood. A gift wrapped with unexplainable love for someone else, a love that is fostered in the tiniest of details, a patience that holds no limits, and a joy unexplainable. Over the past, well, MANY years, I have often thought about what it means to be a mother. I always struggled with the question “do…
Love God. Love people. What blessings and beauty that can come out of that saying. That is what our week was about. We made the 4-5 hour drive to near Hayward, Wisconsin, to the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation. We all had never worked with the Native American population (also known as traditional), so for us…