Introducing: Tala Faith!

This not-so-little girl is Tala Faith! She was born August 10, 2017 at 2:27pm. She's the only child to not make an early morning entrance into this world. She was 8 lb 11.6 oz and 22 1/4 inches long. She was born after only 20 minutes at the hospital. I'm pretty sure my husband thought...

A Mother’s Leadership

I was recently filling out the departmental scholarship application for my upcoming college year when I was asked to respond to this prompt: "Describe examples of your leadership experience in which you have significantly influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time." I tried to think of something in the past...

Kindness over Judgement

This blog post was inspired by A Single Snapshot over at One Mother to Another blog. When I was at the library studying with baby girl yesterday, Tony took the boys to do grocery shopping. It was one of those rare occurrences when the wind is blowing in the right direction and the stars have...

To Answer the Inevitable Questions Now That we are Expecting #3

We just announced that we are expecting our fourth child (third child here on earth with us) today. Our expected due date is November 2nd! To be honest my husband and I considered not telling anyone until May which would have been about halfway through the pregnancy. When you have children so close together there...

Introducing Ignatius!

This post is about 5 1/2 months late. 🙂 But here is our newest addition. He was born March 12th 2014 at 4:03 AM. This guy was a big baby, weighing in at 8 lbs 3 ozs and 21.5 inches long. I went into labor naturally this time and he was born just shy of...

Birthday Boy

So here are some photos from William's birthday bash. I did not include any of the festivities in order to respect guests privacy. But it seemed like everyone (including William) had a blast. We made WAY too much food and ended up bringing a lot of it home. I ended up not doing games at...

You Can Say The Name of my Dead Child

There are tons of varying views of what constitutes a human being and when a human life begins. Scientifically a human life begins at the moment of conception and you can't deny that fact. "Resolving the question of when human life begins is critical for advancing a reasoned public policy debate over abortion and human...

Where Have I Been?

My husband and I are expecting our rainbow baby on March 27 2014! It has been a rough first trimester but everything is looking good right now. I'm quite a bit more nausous then I was with my son. Perhaps it will be a girl? I am also in the process of transferring colleges and...

Miscarriage: Bump Jealousy?

First off I would like to say, August is the busiest month for both my husband's job and mine. So I haven't had any time to write. Secondly, this post is not meant to put anyone down or offend anyone. Everyone deals with grief differently. I just wanted to reflect on something that I feel...

A New Crib

Since we were living in cramped quarters and because I didn't think it would be necessary, William has used his playpen as a crib for the past 10 months. Which has worked perfectly. Until last week when he learned to take off his diaper. This resulted in a 6am bath for a very well "painted"...