On January 21st, we welcomed our precious baby girl, Elizabeth Ella Grace (or Ella, as we call her), into the world. Life since then has been full of more love, joy, and happiness than ever before! As I mentioned in one of my last posts before the baby, my plan was to take a short […]
Our Anniversary Weekend Getaway
I sat in the passenger’s seat of the car, bawling and completely unable to get a word out. I was amazed at what had just happened. DJ sat there in the driver’s seat, with tears streaming down his face. “I’m so grateful for you. You’re my wife, my best friend, my spiritual partner, the […]
Turning Down $8 Million Dollars
If you read my post titled “Why My Husband Turned Down a $300,000-A-Year Job,” after seeing this week’s title, you might think we’re into the practice of habitually turning down money 😂. Or at the very least, that we might be a little bit off our rockers. Well, I can assure you neither is true, […]
He’s Not Eating and I’m Exhausted!
This past weekend, I hit a wall. There was no dramatic breakdown, I wasn’t curled up in a ball on the floor in tears, but I was drained. For the past week, Micah hasn’t been eating well because he’s teething. So much so, that he began to lose a few ounces in weight. In the […]
Breast Milk, Medicine, and Your Future Self
Sometimes blessings come from the unlikeliest of places. Spending the first week of our little one’s life visiting him in the NICU was certainly no easy task (Read about it here). However, it provided us with the awesome blessing of teachers, in the form of nurses, to help us with transitioning into parenthood. Every day, […]
Pain and Peace: My Labor & Delivery Story
“I think my water broke.” I calmly told my husband as I came back into the room at 2 AM, that Tuesday morning. I was three days away from my due date and there was certainly no surprise that baby would be making his appearance any day now. I had been having irregular Braxton-Hicks contractions […]