Happy fall!  I know this is a favorite time of year for many, including me.  I’m sitting down to write this post with windows cracked, candles burning and our first pot of chili on the stove.  We have been anticipating this month for a lot of weeks now.  It’s...

25 weeks June and July: I’m totally slacking here and I have no excuses and no apologies.  June and July just simply flew by.  Paul was busy with youth work camps and trips.  We had a few baby showers, he played some gigs, and we continued to prepare ourselves...

25 weeks along and Baby L. is about 2 pounds and over a foot long and growing more and more each week. Food: Thankfully, no food aversions.  Pretty much ALL food sounds good, ALL the time.  No strange food craving combinations, but definitely some cravings are going on.  I am not...

May in Missouri was pretty fabulous, I must say.  I’m definitely out of the first-fourteen-week-weirdness of pregnancy, have regained some energy and had a full calendar of life-living to do!  And it’s hard to hate May when the weather was as great as it was.  Yes, we had some...

HALFWAY!!  We are halfway to meeting our little babe!  The pregnancy is flying by and I’m so happy to say that I’m feeling much better than I was during the first 14 weeks.  I started to get some energy back around week 12, and then had another week or...

April was – dare I say it – uneventful?  Except it was full of good stuff all at the same time.  I had a conference out of town for work, a bridal shower, a wedding, and a weekend trip to KC which included my first IKEA experience.  And I...