Lately my days with the kids have been really good or really rough. A few days ago I did quite a bit of journaling and note-taking to evaluate how things are going, what goals I have personally, for our home and family, etc. We’ve reordered our routines to line up better with where we want to be…
Kaya | 4 years Kaya princess! My imaginative, exuberant, sweet girl. You both delight and terrify your mama and daddy with the ways you constantly challenge yourself physically. It’s like you cannot help yourself – absent-mindedly you climb, balance, run. There are often crashes but you also pull off some feats! 😉 Your energy and enthusiasm…
“Let’s play Rahab!!!” my daughter shrieks as she runs to meet her friends at the playground. I inwardly groan, loving that she knows (and lives) the story of Israel’s victory over Jericho, but slightly embarrassed that one of her favorite Bible characters is (unbeknownst to her) a prostitute….:-/ Routinely, Kaya and Hudson offer: “Mom, do you…
❤ jc
You know the people who are ‘all-belly’ and simply glowing and adorable during pregnancy? The ones who seem to glide effortlessly and glamorously through the whole experience? (They are probably also the people who have a labor and delivery experience that is perfect and joyous and miraculously short, their bodies rebound days later. Their children…
{I say 16 weeks ‘or something’ because I always forget my # of weeks and they tend to change my due date 3-4 times anyway! SO! We are expecting this little one in mid-August. ;-P } I may or may not have been stickin’ my belly out for all it’s worth in these…ha! There comes…
A place called home… via …where we wake and rise to greet the day, filled with promise. Two by two little ones’ eyes flutter open. They’re invited to dress, to eat, to begin – the youngest asking eagerly, “What are we doing today, Mommy?” A day in the home brings a dynamic blend of the…
This boy is turning 1 a week from today! My heart is sputtering praise and thankfulness and disbelief. This boy is chubby thighs and dirty finger nails and gutteral growls… He’s chalk-eating and consternation and scrunchy-nose-faces… He is daddy’s look-a-like and sissy’s biggest fan… He is awkward-lean-in-kisses, un-raveller of the toilet paper, mad splasher of…
These are my favorite. No where to go, nothing to be done, no one to impress.. just the 3 of them to love. ❤ Oh, I’m thankful… jc
how was your weekend? here are a few highlights from mine..:) i’m certain they would play this with me all day… …but my muscles were aching after twenty minutes of this! Ha! So completely worth it for their smiles ❤ Happy Monday, friends! ❤ jc P.S. stay tuned for the final installment (i think! ha!)…
jordan carlson | a day in the life 