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Paul will be 5 weeks old tomorrow. Yes, I’ll be completely cliche and just go ahead and say it: Where did the time go? He’s growing up too fast. Make it stop! Many have asked what the hardest part of this new transition has been for me. Simply put, not being able to leave the [...]

Big bellies make beautiful babies

Paul is 3 weeks old today, which means my body has been postpartum for three weeks now. Four weeks ago today, this was my body: I love this photo. Big, beautiful, and full of baby boy. No doubt about it, [...]

A (Super)Bowl of ice cream is just as good

It’s the week of the Super Bowl, and this year, it’s in my city of Indianapolis, less than 5 miles away from my front door. It’s all anyone can talk about, if you live in the Circle City. Since I’m a bucket list kind of girl, anytime I get a chance to do something out [...]

Day by Day, Hour by Hour, Child by Child

It was last year around this time, that I was sitting in a writing session at the Blissdom Conference in Nashville, and I learned about a book called Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott. While the theme of the book is based on becoming a better writer, there are also tons of little nuggets of [...]

Paul, you were born on a cold and windy night…

(those were the words jokingly spoken by Michael, as he quickly rounded the corner, driving us to the hospital) The story of how Paul came into the world: 2:00 pm: My due date was the 10th, and I had a routine 40 week doctors appointment schedule for the afternoon of the 12th. Since I was [...]

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