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When my husband and I found out we were pregnant with kiddo number 1, I was still a mere child myself at only 18 years old. We had a U-Haul packed and were planning to move to a new...

When you have as many kids as I do, you learn a thing or two about your parenting strengths and weaknesses. I've learned that I excel at taking care of babies and toddlers. The trouble is, in what seems...

When it comes to Valentine’s Day, we all sit somewhere on the spectrum between full-on romantic holiday bliss and boycotting it completely. I think the beautiful thing about the holiday is that you can celebrate however makes you happy....

In the BC {Before Children} era, the hubs and I would spend many Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays alone together. We would watch movies, go on bike rides and do dinner at a place that didn’t have a kid’s menu....

Write it down. Just grab a pen. Just take two minutes to write it down. You’re going to forget. This was a recurring voice in my head. Throughout pregnancy I needed to write, but barely did after the first trimester....

With the excitement of the holiday buzz, comes the commercialism. It’s the buy, buy, buy mentality of the season. I think Charlie Brown said it best, "Even my dog has gone commercial!" Don’t get me wrong. I like a...

November: the beautiful month full of life’s little pleasures. You can watch squirrels so diligently gather and hide acorns for the winter, see wild turkeys majestically strut across the empty fields, and see children’s sweet breath as they run...

You carried a little baby inside you, a baby boy. I don’t know what went through your mind when you first found out you were pregnant with him. Was it similar to what I felt each of those early...

I’m going to keep this short and sweet because we’ve all got places to go (work, the grocery store) and people to see (mainly just the people at the grocery store). So here we go… Mommas: go hug your babies.  See?...

First things first, the term "empty-nesters" is about as far from my husband and I's current  situation as you could possibly get.  We just brought our FOURTH baby home twelve short weeks ago, and our oldest is only in...