fresh air

Maybe it's a second-time-around-thing. Or maybe it's just a different baby's personality. But somehow, I'm having a much easier time reading Ellery. I know when she's hungry, tired, fussy, happy…I can almost always tell what's bothering her. What a change from Maya's babyhood, or even Ellery's first 8 – 10 weeks or so. Crying, crying, [...]

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Moving on

I arrived in Kalamazoo in 1997, a very green 17-year-old, ready to tackle the world. I leave the area tomorrow a bit less green (maybe edging toward blue or yellow), a married mother of two. I graduated from college here. Worked my first job here. Met and married my husband. Recommitted my life to Christ. [...]

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We sold our house today!

It's official. The sign was taken down, and the buyers now own the house. We're out by Sunday. Whew!
Turns out, the buyers are pregnant with their first and due in August. And it's a girl! I hope they use Maya's room, because it's all cute, with yellow walls, butterflies, flowers, etc. I will enjoy imagining [...]

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Alive

We just returned from a blessed week up north at Cedar Campus, an IVCF training facility in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. What a week! More on that later.
We're alive, but moving this week. So my posts won't be frequent. Hmm…the kids are fine, but sick. Poor Ellery can't sleep or nurse well, but she's coping. She's [...]

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Beauty

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Moving

After 6.5 months of showing our home (quite regularly, I might add), through pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's, St. Patrick's, Easter, and May Day, all the while with a toddler in tow…
…OUR HOUSE IS SELLING!
Our last showing was yesterday at noon. These people made an offer last night; we countered last night, [...]

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38795

I want to get these bags. I could just sew my own shopping bags, but time isn't exactly an abundant commodity these days. If there isn't a little one actually eating from me, one is likely attached to me elsewhere or standing very nearby and talking loudly at me. (I adore them. But let's be [...]

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