Category: One Little Word

  • On May 17, 2013, I received the call from my doctor that my second IVF procedure was a failure. In that moment, I felt like my body had failed me. With all the power of modern medicine, I still could not will my body to do the one thing I so desperately wanted it to…

  • At the end of last year, I quietly chose my One Little Word for 2014… thrive. 2013 for me was all about just making it through day by day – surviving – and as I got ready to turn the page over to a new year I was feeling really ready for something more. Part…

  • Remember when I used to be a scrapbooker? I was even on the cover of a magazine once. This was back in the day when I only had one child who took regular naps, and I was guaranteed a few quiet hours all to myself each day. You can pretty much trace the decline of…