So, if you’ve read about me giving up my career to be a stay at home mom, then you are probably wondering why I’m pulling a Garth Brooks and ‘retiring’ again. Here’s the background: when Levi was 10 months old (I was edging into the second trimester) I went back to work two days a … Read more
Lately, I’ve read a lot of blog confessions that I can relate to. Not the ones about looking at my iPhone rather than my kids or wiping their snot on my housecoat sleeves and rolling them over (it’s not a confession if everyone knows you do it). I’ve been reading the ones about Pinterest, and … Read more
Everyone needs a Great Uncle Herb. Smacking his lips and telling animated tales behind thick glasses. Dancing across river rocks while wrestling with a forty-pound writhing salmon. Strumming his banjo with smiling beady eyes. One afternoon over tea he was telling us a story about peeing in his brother’s eye (I can’t do it justice) … Read more
SO YOU’RE PREGNANT WITH NUMBER TWO? And you will have two kids under the age of two? Congratulations! You are about to become a person held together by spanx, coffee and energy bars. But don’t worry, it won’t last long. That’s a lie, the hours and days will inch relentlessly along – it’s the years that … Read more
About this post: This post was the reason I started blogging. Though, now I mainly write about simplifying and living on purpose – I need to keep this post here because of how many women have told me they needed it. I wrote this about the birth of my first child (who is now six!). … Read more