I’ve been home since I was 25—the day I found out I was pregnant with baby number two, I gave notice at my job, and I never looked back. That was the…

Oh, there is so much happening in our home these days! My personal blog remains my best chance to journal these happenings, so here goes... A week or …

We are a big family by today's standards, yet we are  small circle people . We often wonder if there's something wrong with us, but when we pee…

Yesterday was Friday; it was a Friday that John was off work and we did a rare thing. We spent the day together just the two of us. It started out wi…

I can't wait to come back here and tell you all about our newest adventure!  But for now, let this hold space to remind me that I want to tell yo…

It’s Thursday morning. I sit at the glass high top table of my brother-in-law in his home in Virginia. We are midway in our week-long visit with him …

There are days when no matter how much you want to write something down, you just can't really find the words. Or maybe it's the energy that …

"Wish we had so many more dances together. More fish fries, backyard barbecues, holidays, euchre games, and conversations. Wish you had had a ch…

I really thought this space would be something other than what it is at this point, but I’m starting to see that I can be okay with the direction it …

... we rarely, if ever, are ready to say good-bye to people we love. For now, I just want to hold space for the words that may or may not come later.…

Here's an experiment. Instead of all the other typical things I do before any words I might decide to share land here, I'm just gonna type an…

When you’re used to doing things BIG, it takes some work to begin doing things small. And I know my kindred spirit understands what I’m talking about…

I am tempted to type this directly into the Wix app because doing it in a word processor invites me to edit it until I feel like it’s perfect. This i…

Giving thanks for - things, just the way they are, because reality is teaching me lessons I need to learn. I so often just need to be shaken a bit out…

Time moves quickly and slowly all at once.  I can't believe it's the last day of April already, but at the same time I can't believe it&#…