Category: Motherhood

To My Son, on your Due Date

February 27, 2024

I promise I began this post on your due date, Wells. It’s just that–you’re the fourth child and while I had every intention of writing the full story of your birth on your actual due date (since you came 8 days early!), it’s taken me a few additional days to write it down. And, to…
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Letters from a Young Mother

June 26, 2022

Lately, I’ve been thinking about my time. How I spend it. How I want to spend it. And recently, I was reading Missional Motherhood by Gloria Furman where she spends some time exegeting Titus 2. In verses 3-5, it says– Titus 2:3-5, “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves…
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Adventures in Potty Training: Our first attempt

June 20, 2022

As we prepare to potty train our middle son, Graham, I’ve decided to look back at my notes from potty training my eldest, Aiden. We potty trained Aiden back in March of 2020 when the pandemic hit and quarantine had just begun. Aiden was 29 months old at the time and we figured, what better…
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Hearing, Trusting and Testifying through Impossible Breastfeeding

May 4, 2022

Never did I ever think I would write blog post after blog post about breastfeeding. And yet, here I am, 3 babies later still writing about it. This post is a bit different from my previous ones… I told God I would write it if He would heal Harper, and here we are. 🙂 My…
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So is having a third kid easier?

April 5, 2022

You may be wondering if adding a third kid to the family is easier. I get asked that a lot and I think it’s a good question. I mean, by round three, there’s got to be some developed expertise in all things baby, right? Welp, let me tell you how it went for me… On the…
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Parenting in the Pandemic: Finding Mamahood Community + Sharing our Stories

March 30, 2022

Written by Katlyn Babyak My son Koda just turned 2, and so did the global pandemic. He was born at the end of February 2020 right before things started shutting down and the waiting game began to learn more about this new virus. We had no idea that the new parent saying “your lives will…
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What if there was a place for mothers to experience nurture and care? Cue Upstream Parenting

March 21, 2022

Written by Ally Berttucci An Introduction to Upstream & Restful Parenting I’m Ally, a licensed counselor by training, and one half of the Upstream duo. I have two little boys (2.5 and 1yr) and live in the Chicago suburbs, and am currently desperate for spring to arrive!!! I repeat, two little boys in freezing Chicago,…
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Joy in the Pandemic through the Unexpected: Hosting + Community

March 14, 2022

By Sarah Lin So this might sound a little contrary to pandemic life but hear me out: what’s brought me joy as we’ve navigated this pandemic? Every opportunity we’ve had to host- big or small. My husband and I have always loved and valued having people in our home: for a meal, a game night,…
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Parenting in a Pandemic: finding joy in the little things

February 16, 2022

When I think about this season of parenting in a pandemic, joy is honestly not the first thing that comes to mind. To be honest, I think of suffering. Not just because we’re in a global pandemic, but because it has felt like every area of life in our family has gone through suffering as…
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One mama’s journey of finding time for herself while parenting in a pandemic

February 9, 2022

Written by Kelly Hudgins As you’re likely a fellow parent reading this post, you know that parenting during a pandemic is hard. I could list all the challenges and stresses there are, but you know this already. We can relate to each other in that way. It’s hard, but I’ve also found so much joy…
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