In May, after a crazy couple of years, Dan was hired for the 2017-2018 school year to work at Thomas Gregg Elementary on the near east side of Indianapolis. This school, formerly IPS school 15, has now become an innovation school. Dan is not the only new staff member there, and we are excited about…
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The story of her name…
I’ve been mulling over this post for a while now… wanting to share a bit about our daughter’s name, and our story of this year. (It’s a bit long…that’s your warning!) I’ve been thinking about this time one year ago…the day that I found out that month and months of waiting had finally turned from…
fragility
You’re so tiny…so little here. You look at us through wide eyes when you aren’t sleeping. You rest easy when the hunger stops, when your belly is full, and you are warm and snug. You’re our bundle. We don’t want to miss your tiny fingers, nose and eyebrows. …Your dark hair fluffy after bath time…your…
The very best thing
What started out as a quick trip up north to a friend’s wedding last Saturday ended up as a visit to the ER, and a 4 day 4 night stay in the NICU. Adria has been a really pretty easy baby (so far). So, even though she was two weeks old, we decided to take…
Sojourners
We have had so many changes within our family over the past year, and a single blog post is completely unable to encapsulate ALL of them. After Dan was notified at the end of October 2015 that not only would his job be changing, but his pay would be cut significantly, we began the long…
When HE doesn’t do what I want…
Today in church I was startled by a thought… You know, one of those times when you can’t tell if you came up with the thought, you heard it somewhere, or the Holy Spirit brought it to mind. It startled me by the blatant simplicity, how I haven’t looked deeply at the concept before(?)… Palm…
Letter to my husband,
I know you’re tired. You work so hard for our family. This whole two jobs thing has filled your sleeping hours with serving those with disabilities on top of serving your family. In this way, and in many others you have loved me. Loved us. You have given up a lot of your personal time…
New home
Back in December we started looking at the market for a possible new living situation. We weren’t sure at that point if we would be staying in northern Indiana or moving south to Indianapolis. As it ended up, we saw a renovated cape cod that was a foreclosure in North Webster at the beginning of…
what every mama wants to hear
One: You are the right parent for your child. Two: you’re worth isn’t determined by how much laundry you have done, how many woogies are at the bottom of your sink or on your floor, or how long ago you cleaned the bathtub. Three: Your mothering story is more than how many ounces your child…
When this woman learns to breathe again
Life as the momma of our little half Asian ninja has been an interesting few months. With Saturday marking his 7th month, we’ve been learning quite a bit about nurturing this tiny soul that screeches like a flying dinosaur and adds more flailing and testosterone to the Cottage than a small male puppy on caffeine….
Necessary things
During the past couple of months, I’ve come to analyze quietly in the undercurrents of my soul those things which are necessary. Money, being tight and tighter, and my heart and mind stretched full past what I thought was possible to live in faith, I live. Yes, this here is the necessary tending of my soul….
–transition–
transition. In around 6 weeks I’m going to learn a new definition of this word. As I stretch my writing “legs” and open my mind back to the words I’ve written here before, I sit, looking back on who I’ve been, and who I’m rediscovering. Dan and I have been married months and months now…
Called His Own 