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the case against the cry room.
I can’t remember if I’ve blogged about this or not, but Dax had a pretty gnarly case of colic when he was born and so for the first several months of his life, if he was awake, he was screaming. Not...
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embracing stillness.
This month Case turned 6 months old, which is purely impossible seeing as how I just gave birth to him yesterday. But alas, his first half birthday has come and gone, and we have now entered into the...
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their first love.
A few weeks ago, my son walked in on me doing something he’d evidently never seen before. “Mama, are you trying to take your eyelashes off?” My mouth fell open and I broke my gaze from my bathroom...
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open letter to my second-born son on his first birthday.
Dear Case, The calendar says it’s June 6, 2016, which is a full year since your birth. I must be mistaken though, because I could have sworn you were born only yesterday; I can remember it so clearly,...
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the one that took me a year to write.
Everyone has stories they’ve written about themselves based on their life experiences. (At least, that’s what my most recent therapist told me.) Your stories are essentially the narratives that...
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the story so far.
It’s cold tonight. Like, actually cold. Well, cold for me, anyway. The temperature will dip below freezing tonight, and that’s the first time I’ve felt that in nearly four years. Because we don’t live...
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About six years ago, when I was pregnant with my first son and becoming increasingly aware of how drastically my life was soon going to change, a friend of mine gifted me a book for my birthday....
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dax and case.
Not to brag, but I’ve gotten pretty good at caring for babies. Especially the newborn kind. Nursing. Co-sleeping. Baby-wearing. Eating cold food with one hand. The night watch. The list goes on and on....
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an overcrowded breakfast table.
It’s a quiet, dark Sunday morning. Dan is already at church, and Dax is still sleeping. Case and I, forever the early risers of the family, have been sitting at the kitchen table for twenty or so...
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the first step.
It may sound strange, but on this first day of Advent as we are all looking to the manger, I can’t help but also look toward the Garden of Gethsemane. Stranger still, for me, the Garden of Gethsemane...
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