How I Became A Mother

I have been blessed with three beautiful, healthy children.  Truly blessed.  Each one of them has their own story, their own personality, their own special place in my heart.  My oldest, Sam.  Oh how I love him.  He made...

In my birth class, induction and epidural were not popular words. My husband and I attended Saturday afternoon sessions dutifully; practicing breathing techniques, learning about tearing vs episiotomies, and preparing for birth's possibilities. A natural birth experience was definitely...

I never imagined that my first birth story would have landed me in a surgical room when I had my daughter, Anora Lynne. She had been breech for much of the 2nd half of the pregnancy, and for whatever...

We felt like we had been waiting for an eternity for the day to arrive. It wasn’t an eternity, really, but it felt like it. He had been in foster care--our care--for 574 days. My husband and I had no idea...

When my first son was born, everything was so exciting and new. Picking out the crib. Fighting morning sickness {or all day nausea}. and the birthing process. While it was new, everything went pretty much the way it should. One labor induced French...

"You think that true love is the only thing that can crush your heart. The thing that will take your life and light it up. Or destroy it. Then, you become a mother."   --Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy                                                                          I always...

Have you ever avoided having a conversation with someone because you just weren’t sure what to say or you were nervous about how they might react to what you needed to talk to them about? I can think of...

When you’re 16 there is really no good, or right, way to tell your parents that you think you are pregnant. It’s like ripping off a Band-Aid, they say “do it fast and it will hurt less”, but in...

I met my husband Derek on a college ministry Spring break trip. We dated for five months, got engaged and then got married on our 14 month anniversary. After being married for just under a year, we decided that...