Our “Agains”
One thing Dan and I value incredibly and have since the beginning of our marriage, is taking time away together. It is something we plan for and always can’t wait for. In planning to expand our family in 4-5 months, we decided that now would be a GREAT time to take a Babymoon. We were…
I’ll never forget where I was. And I’m sure you haven’t either – when you were told about your diagnosis, when your loved one passed away, when you found out your job was ending. We often remember the most trivial of details, and yet at the moment, one single moment, everything changed. I’ll never forget…
In parenting, we often consider ourselves the teacher, our children the students. Of course it should look like this, as we prepare our children to be children, all while preparing them to be adults one day. But what we often overlook is the fact that they are teaching us just as much about life. If…
Keep comin’ Spring, keep comin’! We have enjoyed being outside a handful more times this past week, which has felt so good, after a long winter! Not too much new in our corner of the world, just continuing to work on little house projects here and there and of course, watching the Olympics! I told…
Does this scenario sound familiar? It is 7:30pm and it is time for the kids to go to bed. You ask them to pick up their toys, but they refuse. You wait until you do your weekly cleaning (maybe you struggle to do it weekly…) and you ask them to clean their room, but you…
It was a typical day in our home. Until the blankies had to get washed. For the past couple weeks, I have been mulling over in my head how I was going to combat the tears, since we had been down this road before. Unfortunately, I came up with no clever solution. So after Mazy’s…