Here you'll find current musings, as well as the archives from two blogs of yesteryear: YoungMarriedMom and What I Learned While Writing a Novel. Please comment and share. We love well when we are in conversation with one another. 

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Back!

And we’re back! These couple weeks away from the blog were important to our family, but lately I’ve found myself itching to post here again. It’s been about six weeks since I posted, and “busy” is an understatement of what life has been like between then and now.   I finished my revision and sent […]

October 21, 2013

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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A Race to the Finish

Jacob doesn’t know it, but he and I are about to embark on a life-changing competition: potty training vs. novel-edit finishing.   We’re just starting to find a “normal” in our new home, now that the wedding happened, school started again, and Henry decided nursing wasn’t such a bad thing after all. After taking next […]

September 5, 2013

Blogging, Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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On Strike

This Saturday was a day we’d all been waiting for—John’s older brother married the wonderful woman we love as Aunt Ceci. There was a beautiful Mass with a homily that gave me good chills (“We are seeing a family be created today . . . Something that has never existed before is about to come […]

September 2, 2013

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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