Motherhood

Our Adoption – God’s Provision & Stepping Out in Faith

If you are catching up on our adoption story, you can read about our our Adoption announcement here and the first installment of our story here. Vocalizing Our Adoption Desire Last we left off, Scott and I were spending a lot of time praying about adoption. I was trying my best to keep my

Adoption Update: Praying About Adoption

Adoption

January 2016, I held a 6 month old, a chubby cheeked Lucy, in my arms. I sat down on a stool in a Sunday school classroom with my bible study small group. We each went around sharing prayer requests. My heart beat out of my chest at the thought of sharing a secret but I knew I had to get it off

Our Merriest Christmas Surprise!

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My hands are trembling and I have tears in my eyes (no one is surprised by this I know) as I have anticipated typing these words for months. I am so excited to finally share a big secret we have been keeping. We sent out our Christmas card and let our friends and family know

Finding Hope in the Pain

Miscarriage

Today I am so excited to introduce you to my friend, Molly. We connected on Instagram and we have so much in common. Our shared faith, miscarriage, motherhood, and our love for the name Lucille (her daughter's middle name ;) among many other things. I know you will love her as

You say this is your last baby?

Adoption

Ever since Scott and I began discussing serious topics early on in our dating career, we both always said 3 kids. Once I had Solon I thought it was so amazing I could have 4 but then they start to grow up and demand more from you...and the thought of 4 seemed nice but not reality for us.There

The Day We found Out another baby is on the way…

Miscarriage

Note: I typed this literally the day we found out we were expecting for the 4th time. I haven't changed a thing. It was a sweet sweet moment on October 29th.My mind is spinning.It has been 10 months since we said goodbye for now to our 3rd baby. I hope to never relive those painful

Mad…

Miscarriage

Yesterday was one of those days that no matter if 100 people did sweet things for me and I hit every green light in town, I would have been mad. Yesterday I was mad.I was mad my body was out of control. My kitchen was a mess. Vera wouldn't stop crying. I nearly got in a car

Our Miscarriage

Miscarriage

Every night we start our family prayer time, gathered in one of the kiddos beds, with that statement. "We are thankful for today Lord!" Yesterday those words stung as I said them. I pondered that thought quickly before proceeding with the rest of our prayer because the next thing

Typing my feelings out…

Miscarriage

Blogging for me is cathartic. Sometimes I find myself typing blog posts in my mind as a form of internally processing my emotions. The last few days several blog posts have been typed in my mind.In case you didn't know and how would you, we didn't really announce....we were expecting.