Five weeks ago I welcomed my fifth baby to my family. That still blows my mind–five kids!! It feels like a circus at my house. I want to say I love every second of it, but let’s be real. I have five kids and one of them is a newborn. It has been hard. I…
Motherhood
My Birth Story #4
On May 10th, at 1:40 pm, I welcomed my fourth child into the world. It was a beautiful experience, one of my best birth stories. And it’s going to be long and detailed. The weeks leading up to his birth were torturous. Each day dragged on, despite my attempts to fill each day with fun…
20 Things for Postpartum Recovery
I know this is primarily a DIY blog, but the only thing I’ve been DIY-ing lately is a ginormous baby growing inside me. This is my fourth baby and it’s been fun to be pregnant again after four years. I’m 36 weeks now and hopefully this babe will be born in the next three weeks…
10 Ways to Take a Break
My husband was gone last week on a trip for business. Meaning I was a single mom for a few days. And as any single parent will attest, you get a whole lot of kid caring time and not a lot of personal time to relax. And I definitely needed this last week! Actually I…
Online Doctor’s Visit
Fun Winter Activities
This has been a really weird winter. Like really warm. It has snowed only a few times and they were all in a two week period. And those two weeks were right after we moved so we didn’t really have time to do a whole lot of playing in the snow. However, we’ve still had…
A Difficult Anniversary
One year ago my brother released his wife from life support and officially let her spirit leave this earth. It’s the anniversary week of the hardest week of his life, of really our family’s life. I know that so many of you have said so many prayers for my brother and his family and I…
An Easy Way to Find a Sitter
Did any of you read The Babysitters Club series as a kid? Who are we kidding guys…you know you read them. I’m pretty sure I read ALL of them. I thought their club would be so cool to have and maybe if I had personally liked babysitting a little better, I would have made a…
Mother’s Day Shopping at World Market
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of World Market for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Mother’s Day is coming up and to be honest, I have mixed feelings. I of course love my mother, but I never know what to get her. This year especially, there are so many things…
A Snowy Day in Hell
I had the best intentions of showing you this really cute and fun Valentines craft today but instead of spending the afternoon working and photographing it, I spent the afternoon crying and rocking in the corner, clutching my knees. Okay, not really, but that’s what I felt like doing inside. Let me share a story…
Donations to the Liz Logelin Foundation
It’s been five months since my dear sister-in-law passed away, just days after giving birth to her third child, a baby girl. If you’ve been following my blog, you know the sad story. You also know that we’ve been accepting donations for my brother and his family, to help them during their transitional time. Thank…
On Grief
I’ve joined the ranks of a group that, excuse me for saying so, I would rather not be in. People Who Have Lost Loved Ones Unexpectedly. The shock and gut-wrenching pain of a loss coming from nowhere is a circle of Hell. Grief is a strange thing. Much different than I thought it would…
