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Better Days
Not long after I wrote my post about Losin it!, I started having better days. Things tend to work that way… First, God sent me my “Mommy’s Helper,” A young lady in my…
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Losin’ it!
I am not doing nearly as well as I had expected or hoped to during this deployment. I feel like I am losing my sanity. Last night I washed a load of clothes,…
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Sweet Silver Lining
I know I haven’t blogged much recently…I haven’t felt much like it. If you have been keeping up with my Facebook posts, you know that the past two months have been difficult on…
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Thoughts about motherhood on my first Mother’s Day as a new mom
This is my third Mother’s Day. My first Mother’s Day, I celebrated a life in the arms of Jesus, and mourned the loss of our first little one.
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April Showers
Let me be honest, I have had a pretty difficult month…well, two months actually. It began with Ezra not sleeping…for about six weeks straight he woke every two hours or sometimes even less…
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Reasons I enjoy deployment
A few weeks ago, I wrote a guest blog post for my friend Kathryn about deployment. One of the things that I encouraged her to do in that post was to “enjoy the…
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Mac Drives, Movies, Mayonnaise, Milk, McDonalds, and Mondays
I ran out of milk sometime last week. Well, actually, I didn’t run out…it expired, and I didn’t have any left to replace it. Thus begins the madness that is also known as…
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Ezra’s (Cesarean) Birth Story
“Let labor begin on it’s own…” (Lamaze Healthy Birth Practice #1) On the evening of September 6, 2010, this was the one thing I was trying to repeat over and over to myself.…
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My Weight Loss Journey Thus Far
“A time to get, and a time to lose…” (Ecclesiastes 3:6) For most of my adult life, my weight has fluctuated right around 100 pounds, regardless of how much I ate or how…
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One month down
Baby, How’s our little baby boy? Does he know his daddy’s halfway ’round the world? Tell him he is my heart
