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He’s Here!
Meet our Warren Joseph. A son. So different from the responsibility and privilege of raising a daughter, and yet so distinctly precious. Savannah was the first of a new generation for our family. She made us parents and taught us the Father’s love like we’d never experienced it before. She showed us the necessity of shaping identity early in a child’s life and how everything we do in this life is driven by the understanding of our own. She was an everyday example of the joy we are created to live with, the kind that comes from knowing just who we are. Charlie was the first for our family after…
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Every Home A Foundation: 5 Take-Aways
There’s something about these slow days of late third trimester that I just love… like time is not real. You make it to 39 weeks (or maybe it’s 38 for some, or 37 for others) and all of a sudden, your baby could come any day or not for another 2 weeks. You don’t want to sit around and watch the days on the calendar pass by, but you’re also not motivated to take on any big projects that may end up unfinished, so you end up wandering through your dream-like days while the rest of the world carries on as normal. You read a new book or pick up…
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How I’m Preparing For Birth As a Third Time (Pregnancy After Loss Informed) Mom
It feels surreal to type the words “third time mom” into that heading above. Can that be real? Am I really old enough- mature enough- to have now had three children? That’s more children than my own mother. Am I qualified to talk about birth experiences or make any kind of recommendations about what could or should go into postpartum preparation? I don’t feel like the other third time mothers do- or at least what I imagine they would. Mostly because I’ve never had the privilege to raise my multiple children in my home, all at once. That, and my birth experiences have all looked so different. Do I deserve…
