Dear Friends,

Hello!  I’m back, and I’m delighted to introduce a new family member!  Just one week ago, we welcomed Hattie Grace into the fold.

Life is certainly different than it was when I started this blog in 2009.  I had two small boys, a teaching fellowship, and a crazy grad school schedule.  Now, in the summer of 2016, I became the mother of FIVE. Our whole world is different now.  We have three boys and two girls.  I am a mostly at-home mom, but I’m also a doula now.  We homeschool (something that was certainly not in the cards in 2009), and we are all a little further along in the big quest of figuring out who we are as a family and what that looks like in our world.

These are wonderful changes, but they also mean that blogging gets pushed aside most of the time.  I am grateful if anyone still reads these posts–even after months of silence on my end.  I still don’t intend to ever call this blog “complete,” saying good-bye to a project that has meant a lot to me over the years.  Just know that long stretches of time might pass without something new, but I’m still over here dreaming up ideas and waiting for the right moment to share a piece of our life with you.

‘Til next time…