The “I Have Something to Say” series continues today with a story that had me in tears. Sometimes we have to walk through grief to see the beauty on the other side!

I was always the type of person who had every little detail of my life planned. Meals were written down, I knew what I was going to do each weekend as predefined on my calendar, and I had the typical 5 year plan after my husband and I were married. We both wanted to start a family immediately after we got married and we were fortunate to have our first daughter 10 months after our wedding. Life was perfect, or so I thought. Continue reading →

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I have now been a working mom for a little over a month. I have woken up and showed up for work for 33 days. And I have gone into work not seeing my daughter beforehand every single day (well, minus two weeks when my husband was out of town). I have also gone 48 hours without seeing her at all, due to meetings I had after work.

And I’m exhausted. Mentally, physically, and emotionally. Continue reading →

Woo hoo! The “I Have Something to Say” series continues this week! Tonight you’re hearing from Sarah. 

“But we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.” Romans 5:3-4. We all go through seasons of affliction, big or small, and I’m thankful we have HOPE through it all. (Ya like that rhyme? Hahaha)

I also believe challenges & afflictions change our perspectives Continue reading →

“I Have Something to Say” is live again this week! Today you’re hearing from Stephanie with letter talking about relying on God when our plans for motherhood don’t go as we thought they would:

To the one still waiting:

Pregnancy and new life was once a hard and touchy subject for me. I have pictured myself being a mom since my earliest memories as a child. When my husband and I started trying to get pregnant I was shocked when we didn’t conceive right away. My mother never had Continue reading →

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My dogs were my life. Literally. And it saddens me a tad to say “was,” but nothing comes close to my love for my child. Obviously.

I thought our dogs were perfect in every way and truthfully they were, at least for the life we had pre-baby.  I composed this list shortly after our daughter Adalynn was born because our dogs were driving me CRAZY! Continue reading →

The “I Have Something to Say” series continues! Today we are hearing from Kristin:

Being a stay-at-home mom was something that I never knew I wanted. It was something that had never crossed my mind when I was in college or even after I had gotten married to my husband.

We lived in Hawaii, where my husband was stationed, for a little over three years. We were married for a year when we became pregnant with our first child – a beautiful, healthy baby girl! She was everything and more Continue reading →