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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The Suburbs: Pros and Cons

We’ve been living in the suburbs for three weeks now, and almost everything has been great about it. It’s a little strange to come back to the town you grew up in as an adult. It’s even weirder when you’re married to a guy who grew up in the same town, but went to different […]

August 19, 2013

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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