The Way We Were Before
I was up last night thinking about BEFORE. Before we were married. Before we bought our first home. Before our first…
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To the Girl in the Picture Who Just Said Yes
To the girl in this picture, the one who just said “yes” to the man of her dreams . . . I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. I can…
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I’m So Thankful For My “All-in” Family
“We’re an ‘all in’ family.” It was one of the first things my future mother-in-law said to me way back when I was just a…
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You Took Your First Breath and I Lost Mine, When God Gave Me You
When God gave me you, I understood the true power of change. For nine months my body grew and stretched. I folded my favorite jeans and placed them…
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Dear Husband, I Love You For All the Little Ways You Care
Dear husband, As I write this, I am patting the back of our 3-year-old while she drifts off to sleep and you rock our screaming 8-month-old. It is…
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Dear God, Help Me Truly See My Children
Dear God, my toddler picked the baby up again. I heard her whisper in her little ear, “I got you boom-ba, I know, I know . . . it’s OK baby, I…
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What if I Never “Just Know” Our Family is Complete?
They say you will just know. Your family will feel complete and you will be confident in your decision to not have any more kids. But what happens if…
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To My Parents, I Get it Now
Dear Mom and Dad, You always told me it would make sense when I got older, that I’d understand when I became a parent. You always said it, but I…
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I Thought I’d Be a Better Mom Than This
I’m not good enough. Those are the words that have swirled through my mind nearly every day since becoming a mom. Because none of this is how it…
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Dear Husband, I Love You Even More Because of the Daddy You Are
The weather’s cold, so we’ve made that shift to inside people yet again. I look at that enclosed house space with terror. Where will the…
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