Category Archives: Personal

Reflections on Motherhood

With Mother’s Day around the corner, I figured it would be appropriate for me to write a post as a mother. You know, seeing as I am one and all. Disclaimer: I debated writing this because I didn’t want people to take it the wrong way. I recognize that everyone’s situation is different. What I […]

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Keep Chasing

It’s interesting how the weather can affect mood and emotions. Like waking up to warm sunlight gleaming through the window shades, inviting you to get out of bed and start your day ready to conquer the world. Or like when I woke up this morning, thinking through the list of things to get done today […]

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Haiku

I had a different post planned for today, but my sweet girl got really sick, and it kind of threw this week for a loop… Soooo here’s what I have instead: a somewhat lame but also truthful poem about being the mom of a sick kid. Your little child clings coughing and warm with fever […]

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Change is a Good Thing

“You don’t like change,” he told me. Jake and I were sitting on the couch talking about our move to Texas, when he admitted he’d been worried I wasn’t going to be happy here. My cheeks flushed a little, and I immediately opened my mouth to blurt out a defensive comeback, but then I stopped. […]

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Somewhere

They say you’ve gotta start somewhere. I look back at when I used to blog three, four, sometimes even five times a week. I miss those days a little bit. When I had more time to sit down and write out blog posts consistently. When I thought I knew where I would be and how […]

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