Back with a second trimester update! I’m trying to get all caught up with my updates before baby arrives (in 5 or so weeks)! These stunning photos are by my new friend Alexandra Friendly. She came out to our home mid-February and snapped these heirloom film photographs. I will forever cherish these images. I’m amazed […]

I’m a few days away from my due date, with so signs of baby. I suppose he may follow the footsteps of his sisters, arriving 12 and 7 days late. I feel SO ready, and not just physically. I’ve been trying to keep the house neat and the kitchen clean and the bathrooms spotless. Since […]

  It’s August 22, it’s still summer, and I’m still pregnant! Fancy that! I don’t know why I let myself even consider the possibility that I will deliver this little one early, since both of my girls were significantly late (Zoe, 12 days, Naomi, 7 days). But I’m officially in the “safe zone”…past 37 weeks […]

 These last few weeks of pregnancy have to be the longest. I’m 35 weeks and 5 days. One week and 2 days until I’m 37 weeks and considered “full term” and can have my home birth! Yes, a home birth! I never would have imagined choosing a home birth, but here we are, and just […]

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow On daffodils, death, and finding joy… Spring is officially here, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere! The daffodils in my garden are in […]

It’s here, the greatly-sought-after THE HUSBAND GIFT GUIDE. Oh, The Husband (aka a 30-something man). What to buy him?! Here are a few useful, practical, and dare I say, even beautiful items for the man in your life. A little outdoorsy, a little cozy, a lot well made, durable, and, well, manly. My husband lives […]

Today I’m sharing 20 ideas for a more intentional Christmas. For our family, we try to make the Christmas season last for as long as possible. This year, for the first time ever, we bought a small, live – to be planted later – cedar tree. It’s about 4′ tall and will go in the […]

Woohoo! I’m thrilled to be writing this post today, because it means the Real Talk Real Moms series that paused in 2017 has resumed! This series was one of my favorite to take part in, because I learned so much from the other moms sharing their candid stories. If you are new around here, or […]