One of the things that only experience can teach you, only time living and going through life stuff will help you understand is this: We can really grow and change and be made better by things that break our hearts. And in finding that, as my dear nana would tell me, “There’s no way but […]
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When you have a new baby or you have toddlers or little kids or any combination of tiny humans at home, it is a season full of joy and fun and excitement and newness but it can also be really really hard. But that season has no small number of challenges and you just have
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One of the things we talk about A LOT over here in our house full of teenagers is how to know if someone is for you. What does that look like? What does it mean? What is the difference between someone who is our friend and a friend who is for me? Because while someone
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How do you do it? I’ve never counted, but I imagine the number of times I’ve been asked that question by Moms with one or two children is somewhere in the hundreds. I have five children, and judging by the look on the tired and weary faces that pose the question, that number seems simply
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This post was originally published on April 20, 2022. Have you ever done something so impossibly difficult that you thought it might break you if you attempted it? I don’t know, maybe running a marathon or hiking some colossal mountain or baking Grandma’s ten-layer cake that involved dental floss and some crazy kind of magic?
This post was originally published on October 19, 2021. It’s been many months that I’ve thought about what to write here. I have this desire inside to write out the formative happenings of my life, this internal prompting that always nudges me towards transparency, openness, and sharing. I mostly see it as good, a manifestation
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