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Advice (You Haven’t Heard) for New Parents

February 20, 2021

Good advice is worth its weight in gold. Now I’m not saying that you’ve never heard any of this advice, but I am saying that some of it is probably new, and worth taking heed. I am an avid reader and researcher, and have loved raising my two boys with this knowledge in hand. I…
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Why I Love Using Essential Oils as a Mom

January 31, 2021

I started using essential oils around 4 years ago. I got a diffuser for Christmas, researched essential oil brands and and begun diffusing a few fairly basic blends. It wasn’t until I became a mom though, that essential oils began to be more important in my life. Two years ago, I was trying to figure…
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I Didn’t Know How Much Being a Mama Would Change Me

January 14, 2021

I didn’t know how much being a mama would change me. I didn’t know how much I’d love it. How much I’d love you. I didn’t know how much joy I would have from watching you sleep. From holding you in my arms, from seeing you smile. I didn’t know how fast time would go.…
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“Santa was an easy tool to begin to paint a picture of God for our girls”

December 15, 2020

In the weeks leading up to my first Christmas as a mom, a friend of mine whose daughter was a few years older explained to me that she and her husband had decided not to talk about Santa Claus as a family. “It’s creepy,” she explained, “there’s a guy watching you sleep, deciding if you’re naughty or…
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When My hopes of being a “good mom” are shattered.

November 14, 2020

It’s 3am and I’m awoken by the sound of my ten month old crying. I pause for a few minutes and realize that it’s his hunger cry. I sleepily pull myself out of bed and walk across the hall to his room. After he has nursed for a few minutes, I crawl back into bed…
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Graham Owen: The Night We Met

November 11, 2020

I love reflecting upon the birth stories of each of my boys. Each birth was unique in its own way, and has been so fun to remember and recount to them. Matt and I did a lot of preparation in order to have Aiden & Graham naturally, and I want the boys to know how…
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On the Night You Were Born

November 11, 2020

There’s this book that we got from some of our sweet friends, Kyle + Joanna, called On the Night You Were Born. We read it to Aiden regularly before bed and I just love the theme of the book–that all the stars and creation celebrated on the night of baby’s birth. A birth story is such…
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I want more for Motherhood.

November 11, 2020

I’ve only been a mama for 3 years now, but I want more for motherhood. I don’t know about you but I’ve heard the phrase “the survival years” more times than I can count. And it’s true that motherhood is exhausting. That when you’re raising little ones, it can feel like you can barely catch…
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