We are lucky to have a lot of people in our lives who know what we’ve been through this last year, and make a sincere effort to check in. Like any major life change, pregnancy is the kind of thing where a lot of people ask you the same questions and you give the same […]

Dear John,   (You didn’t think the letters were just for the kids, did you?)   Three years. Can you believe it? Today we’ve been married three years. Happy anniversary!   When we started dating in high school, neither of us knew where the relationship would go. We were six months away from shipping off […]

Happy Feast of St. Vincent de Paul!   I always forget what day this feast is, despite it having a very special place in my heart. St. Vincent de Paul is the patron saint of my home church—the church where I grew up, met a boy, got married, and baptized our first son. While St. […]