Our baby bird | Little Wren Margaret
I still remember holding the ultrasound envelope up to the window light in our living room and seeing it. Wait, did I just see the letter g? (Frantic moving of the envelope into more light.) Steve was...
View ArticleHer birth story | Four weeks young
Tomorrow she'll celebrate four whole weeks of life on the outside. I can hardly believe it, really. It seems like just yesterday I was propped up in a hospital bed, holding her while she slept,...
View ArticleA simple treasure hunt for today .
Just popping quickly in-- because the baby is fast asleep and the boys are busy taking every couch cushion off the guest bedroom sofa and jumping away-- to say happy first day of Autumn. I love this...
View ArticleAutumn looks like this at our house. . .
It's piles of warm clothes, lit candles, crackling fires, stacks of wood, a porch full of mums and potato vines, an adorable baby girl, and boys in their comfies waving goodbye to a daddy headed off...
View ArticleThree .
"I yove you fooooo muktch." (I love you so much.) Yesterday, he came down the stairs and brought me a bright gold leaf and said those five little words as he headed back up. I hear these words from my...
View ArticlePreorders and Past Words | Here + There, A Christmas Collective
November is here and I can hardly believe it! Last year, around this time, I shared a big piece of my heart with you. I told you about a special project that had come to completion, a collection of...
View ArticleHouse News .
Some of you might've heard our rather crazy news-- that we bought a house, a van, and had a baby-- all in one week. More accurately, I should tell you that we placed an offer on a house, bought a...
View ArticleThe Holidays are Here | Giveaway to Artifact Uprising
Today, my parents arrive to spend Thanksgiving with us. I am beside myself with happiness because this is the first year we've had the joy of having them with us for Thanksgiving. The boys, as you...
View ArticleHolidaying | All our knowledge about doily imprinted clay ornaments
For a while now, beautiful images of doily imprinted pottery have been dancing through my head. I wish I could afford every single piece because they are drop dead gorgeous. (This planter is one of my...
View ArticleThoughts about television and our (near) decade without it | Part One
Before my husband and I were married, someone gave us the advice to not own a television for the first year of marriage. I don't remember who gave us the advice but I'm glad we followed it. One year...
View ArticleEleven Necessities for Newborns + a Giveaway with 4moms .
The interwebs and googles are filled with millions of blog posts stating exactly what I'm claiming today-- here are the necessities for life with a newborn. I've put together this list with as much...
View ArticleIt's February, I know, but let's talk about Christmas .
We took down our Christmas tree and the whole nine yards during the second week of January. But I've just now gone through my favorite photographs from our December and I wanted to share them here. A...
View ArticleFriendship and Beauty .
Recently, God brought a new friend into my life and I am so grateful for her eager friendship, her joyfulness, and her love for others. Joy and love for others are areas that I feel the need to grow...
View ArticleHalf of a year .
Every time I try to write this post I get finger tied. Nothing comes out right. And no matter how hard I try, I really can't explain how thankful I am for my Wrennie Meg. Lately, Instagram has become...
View ArticleOn Motherhood. Onward and Forward.
Motherhood. There's just been nothing like it in my life. It's wrecked me, broken me, healed me, grown me. In mothering, in growing my children, my own soul has grown up. In a sense, my children and I...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to Evelyn
We said our earthly goodbyes to a dear friend last week. And, even though this journaling space has been a little quiet as of late, I wanted to come here to process a few thoughts about a precious...
View ArticleRadical Generosity | My parents .
Yesterday I read an article about the cost of radical generosity and these words stood out to me-- "you can't keep up with the Joneses when you are committed to radical generosity." The first people...
View ArticleMy favorite people. Our favorite guy. A whole lotta love.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, You're tearing up the grass. We're not raising grass, Dad would reply. We're raising boys. | Harmon Killebrew...
View ArticleOur Home | Part One
Lately, I've been thinking quite a bit about the wonder and beauty of a home and all that goes into creating such a thing. The people that share in the messes and the quirks, the things that we...
View ArticleEleven months yesterday.
Last evening, I bent over the bath and began filling up the tub for two little boys that were covered, from head to toe, in dirt. I lifted myself off of my knees and stood up to a smiling Wren...
View ArticleOur Home | Part Two
Several weeks ago I began reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. I've both laughed in agreement and furrowed my brow in sadness while reading this book. Kondo writes that, "the...
View ArticleOn Instilling Love and Appreciation .
It's Sunday afternoon and the sunlight is filtering through the tall redwood and onto our sunroom floor. A determined and unrelenting bumble bee smacks the sliding glass door over and over again. And...
View ArticleGingerbread, Budweiser, and Goblins .
I keep trying to tell myself that he really isn't reading. But, it's of no use. Last week, as we were driving home, the boys decided to play the alphabet game–– the one where you try to find each...
View ArticleOn Homeschooling.
Earlier this month he turned six. And earlier this month, I cut his curls shorter than I've ever cut them before. Something-something about his hair couldn't touch his collar, read the school...
View ArticlePattern Blocks for Minimalists
There have been many times in my short years of motherhood that I have looked down to see a beautiful combination of learning materials and chubby little hands. Oodles of pictures have been taken...
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