THE JOURNAL

Several months ago, I was really struggling with knowing how to discipline Axton. It was getting to the point where I felt like I was just pulling things out of thin air just to make him feel like he was receiving an actual punishment. My “go-to” punishment was to take shows away for the day, but […]

Seven years and six months ago, I was wishing it was you taking me out for my birthday dinner, only 5 days after we had met, instead of the random date I had chosen just previous to meeting you. I was opening a homemade card from you, the best birthday gift I got that year, […]

It really is funny how true it is – every pregnancy is different. Each time I’ve gotten pregnant, I’ve been in completely different places of life: emotionally, physically, spiritually. I’ve brought my experiences up to that point with me and it’s changed the way I’ve reacted to the news, to the way I carry myself […]

This time around, I knew it had to be different. I knew this time, I had to wait. I had to wait until I felt that ache, the desire, the hope in me that said maybe, just maybe, I could do this again.  There were definitely times when I didn’t know if I ever would want […]

Every night before going to bed, I would sit on the stairs leading up to my room and write notes on my phone about things Nancy and Claude had said that day that I wanted to remember. Little stories or just short quotes that illustrated the kind of people they are, or the way they were […]