To Sow A Seed

January started out with a bang for us; not only are we in need of a meeting what feels like an impossibly large deductible for…

As much as I’d like to escape some of my first-world problems while overseas, sadly I cannot. Life just doesn’t stop here because I’m there.…

The hardest part of moving from one home to another is leaving behind the memories. Yes, I have missed certain elements of a specific home’s…

These things we mothers do, quickly, without thinking. Walking down the stairs? Might as well grab a cloth and wipe fingerprints off the banister as…

I cried. I’ll tell you that right up front, so that you pick up the thread of this post with its full weight. I cried right…

On this day a year ago, I had no idea that this place I now call home even existed.

I met Babita when she was 12, two years after we first placed her picture on our refrigerator. It was the summer of 2009, and…

Marriage is work. I knew this going in, but somehow, at 21, the work seemed, I don’t know… easier? Like maybe I’d do it for…

This one wasn’t so much a surprise as a welcome, yet unexpected cherry on top of so much happiness already unfolding in our home. I…

Moving to a farm mid-July pretty much guarantees that, unless the previous owners up and decided to sell just as the fruits of their many…