Category Archives: Motherhood

Lucas is our last baby (at least that is the plan).  So each of his “lasts” causes me to pause for a moment, soaking in the magic and sentiment of our last baby’s last things.  Sometimes you don’t realize it’s a “last” until after it’s happened.  I won’t know when I’ll change his last diaper, […]

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We are getting ready to participate in JDRF’s One Walk at Mall of America in just two days.  A couple weeks ago, I shared a bit about our first experience at the walk in 2014.  (You can read about it here.)  Today, I want to share a little bit about our experience last year. February […]

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Somehow we’ve fallen into a Friday tradition. On most days, after Mackenna gets on the school bus, we have somewhere to go. Preschool. Taekwondo. Bible study. But not on Fridays. Fridays seem to be our lazy days.  The boys and I stay in our jammies.  I try to tackle the week’s mountain of laundry. There’s […]

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Confession: I am not a fan of activities that leave messes.  I wish I was the mom that always said “yes” to play-dough and finger painting and playing with sand.  But I am not that mom.  So when Justin asked me when we were going to make Christmas cookies with the kids, I did my […]

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A good friend of mine recently asked me to share part of my story in front of a large group of women.  I thought she was crazy…I’m more of a write-it-out-and-let-others-read-it kind of storyteller, not so much a stand-in-front-of-a-crowd-with-a-microphone kind of storyteller!  But she assured me that she was not crazy, and that the theme of […]

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