Experience has shown me that marriage gets harder as the babies add up. You start out as two fully functioning adults with puppy dog eyes for each other, making really big vows about serving each other through all of the wonderful, but also the difficult times. I won't say that marriage is ever ...
Marriage
Kid-Friendly Weddings and a nod to the brides and grooms who host them
I admit: I didn't think much about children when I planned my wedding. They weren't excluded from our guest list, but nothing about their presence on the big day really crossed my mind. Which is why I wanted to give the biggest virtual nod I could to the brides and grooms who do think about the ...
Thoughts After Five Cycles on the Lady Comp
It’s been five months since I began using the Lady Comp--you remember, the device that helps you chart your cycle for the purpose of contraception or conception?--and I’m back to tell you about my experience. Disclosure: I was provided the Lady Comp at no cost in exchange for my honest review ...
When the Babies come before the House
I haven't been writing much lately, and I'm sorry for that. But the reason is a good one: on Halloween, we finally closed on a house(!!!) And life has been a whirlwind of moving and shopping and settling and keeping up with so much more square footage than I've ever had to. All good, yet exhausting ...
Stop Taking the Fun Hostage, Mom
"Bike ride at the bayou this Sunday?" My husband texted me from work on Friday. "YES," I replied. Our family loves bike rides, and this is the time of year for it in Texas. Soon, it'll be miserably hot and we would rather be swimming than biking. But, while I always love the idea of biking, ...
Our Love Made this Chaos
You walk through the front door, exhausted. You trip over the toys strewn about, I hand you the fussy baby. The toddler has 18 things he wants to show you at once. I serve the dinner that burned while I changed a diaper and bandaged a bo-bo. We sit at our old kitchen table in our too-small home with ...
To my husband about those two small hours he spends with the kids each day
Dear Husband, You work hard away from home, and I work hard right here at home. You provide for them and I nurture them. You protect; I nourish. We share them and we shape them. Your gifts, my gifts blend together to grow our gifts. No one in the world was designed to raise these little lives ...
How your husband really feels about your mom-body
I think we've all been encouraged by brave moms who have gone before us to not be ashamed of the marks that have made us mommies. Stretch marks, flabby tummies, varicose veins, surgical scars, abs that have gone missing for YEARS--they're all just physical reminders of the sacrifice we make for our ...
My husband isn’t in love with me and here’s why
"I love you, Katie. But I'm not in love with you," said The Boy who broke my 16-year-old heart. And with that, our 18-month-long relationship (an eternity in teenage time) was over. That statement: to love but not be in love. I didn't know what it meant, what The Boy meant. All that I knew was ...