Lately || February 2024

It may be the shortest month, but this February felt long—partly for good reasons (a fun trip at the start of the month) and partly for not-so-good ones (pregnancy malaise combined with ...

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What I Learned This Winter About Blessings, Loss, and My Own Best Practices

I have been reflecting on what I’ve been learning in posts like this one for ten years—almost since the inception of this blog. Often the lessons come easily to me, leaping out ...

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Surprise! Baby #4 Coming This August!

It was just before Christmas, and I was feeling off. My stomach had been a mess all week, I was more exhausted than I should have been, and—most notably—I’d been hormonal and ...

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Ten Simple Things That Are Saving My Life This Winter

Congratulations! If you’re reading this, it means that you survived the month of January, and if your month was anything like mine, that’s a feat worth celebrating. This January brought all the ...

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Lately + January 2024

If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, I’m currently flying across the country on a plane headed for Orange County, California. It’s my first flight in nearly five years, my ...

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Two Thousand Twenty-Three: The Highlights!

With 2023 drawing to a close, I can think of no better way to end my blogging year than with a look back. I began my retrospection a couple of weeks ago ...

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Lately || December 2023

Today is Luke’s and my fifteenth wedding anniversary. These fifteen years have encompassed all of my adult life, and I can hardly remember a time before Luke, yet these years have flown. ...

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Reevaluating

There was a slight chill in the air as our family piled into the van that Sunday after church. Sliding into the front seat, I wrapped my sweater more tightly around my ...

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Lately || November 2023

November wins first prize for “most diverse month”: it comes on the heels of Halloween and spooky season, winds its way through fall happenings and Thanksgiving, then ushers in the Christmas festivities. ...

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Eleven Things I Learned This Fall

Fall is our family’s busiest season. Even without the sports involvement that occupies many families’ hours during the autumn months, we always pack a lot into September, October, and November, and this ...

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