the long winter
Maryland has had one of the coldest snowiest winters in years, or so the locals say; and this Carolina girl is not used to temperatures in the single digits or […]
Maryland has had one of the coldest snowiest winters in years, or so the locals say; and this Carolina girl is not used to temperatures in the single digits or […]
My mom delivered seven children naturally. I witnessed four of those births. My siblings were born either at home or in a birth center. The atmosphere was calm, peaceful, sacred […]
We are officially in the doldrums of this deployment. R&R has come and gone, and we aren’t quite to the halfway point between R&R and my love’s homecoming. Morale ebbs […]
L. the Brave, aka Crumb, made his appearance at 8:27pm on December 29, 2012, at exactly 41 weeks. I’m pretty sure he would have been content to stay in there […]
38 weeks and 1 day. Crumb can come any day now and be full term. He’s just as ready to live in the world as he will be two weeks […]
Most of our friends and family were not at all surprised when we announced, three months into marriage, that we were expecting a baby. In fact, the phrase we started […]
One year ago, a man and a woman took a walk under the Southern Cross and a bright Ugandan moon. After months of wanting to share hearts and feelings, but […]
My love, good man that he is, still reads my blog, even though he gets to hear the waterfall of 30,000 words that comes out of my mouth every night […]
In the weeks leading up to the wedding and at the wedding, I was asked hundreds of times, “where are you going on your honeymoon?” To which I answered: “I […]
Some girls plan their wedding day as a child. That wasn’t me. I spent more time playing house and acting out what it was to be a wife and a […]