October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Until recently I’ve been telling people that I lost a son. I don’t say it much, mind you, because it is not something that easily comes up in conversation. However, when the...
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
-Mitch Albom from The Five People You Meet in Heaven
It’s been several years since I first encountered the above quote, but recently thought of it again as...
I started scrapbooking in high school when the scrapbooks were big and bulky with gray pages and a shoelace-type string to hold it all together. (Am I dating myself here?!?) Nowhere did we see the phrases "acid-free," "lignin-free," "archival-quality,"...
My husband went on a work trip recently. He went to Florida. He stayed in a massive suite. Facing the ocean. Without me.
That is neither here nor there. This post isn’t about how he left me for eight days...
Being pregnant is such a special and short time, even though it can feel like a long time. There are so many amazing things happening that you think you'll always remember, but they do get lost if you don't capture them...
Hi. My name is Sarah, and I write a yearly Christmas letter.
Please don't groan! I know all of the stereotypes of the Christmas letter: They're either boring, dry, and uninteresting lists of the year's events that no one wants...
I had a fairly uneventful pregnancy the first time. I loved having my one ultrasound and visiting the doctor to know exactly where the baby was positioned inside me so I could soothe it in utero. I worked up...
So much talk is focused on the early days and months of breastfeeding, as it should! Those days were so hard, but I was prepared mentally for that struggle. Weaning...not so much. I dreaded it, but I had a...
Last week, my oldest son turned 9. Nine. To be honest, I never expected 9 to be a hard birthday as his mom. Watching all four of my babies turn 1 was rough; knowing that I'd never refer to...
Hello again! So, since you have last heard from me I've done a lot of "soul searching" if you will, to find out what it is I love so much about parenting. There are the obvious reasons of "I...
March Madness Bingo: Iowa Women
March Madness has arrived, and for our household that means non.stop. basketball.watching. We know that it's the same for many of you and your...
