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Vows

(written October 6, 2012…somewhere much warmer. Life has happened since, so please excuse the gap in posting time…pretty fitting for life as I know it right now.) Five years ago. Today.  We look...

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Prime Car Wash: No Brainer for Mamas & Papas

So, moving on from marriage to my minivan. These are my minivan thoughts: Graffiti of fruit squeeze pouches on the doors and windows, crushed crackers in the carpet, socks ripped off and chewed and...

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Haunted House at Indianapolis Children’s Museum

Who doesn’t love all things fall – including a visit to childhood every October when Halloween rolls around? The smell of Snickers, Twix, Starburst and Milky Way mingling in a trick or treat bag is...

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All Things Nourishment

If you haven’t noticed, I am a big believer in nourishing your body AND soul…especially as a mother. The minute we find out we are pregnant we start to sacrifice the priority of our mental and physical...

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Tuesday Taste: Fuel The Body Well Guest Post

Last August at the Blogher’12 Conference, I had the privilege of a chance meeting with a girl after my own nutritional heart – Simona Hadjigeorgalis from Fuel The Body Well.Com. I met her briefly but...

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Thursday Nourishment – Guest Post by Katrina Anne Willis

I’ve sort of got a girl crush on this amazing writer/mom/cool person I met on this funny thing called Facebook. Seriously, we met over the comments section on one of my favorite blog’s Facebook page...

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Do Not Give Up

So it’s been awhile. I somehow turned into one of those bloggers that goes missing for weeks on end. Thankfully, I am not missing – just barely swimming. Instead of regular blog posts, I have been...

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Shock.

People constantly ask us, “Were you SHOCKED when you found out you were having triplets?” This simple question usually insinuates the following: Were you so infertile that you had to do that IN...

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Get up & Show Up

First of all … Hi to all my new lovely friends that I am lucky to have thanks to the gals at The HuffingtonPost.com for sharing our story this week in the “Parents” section. I feel hugs from all over...

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The Opposite of Love.

I don’t know what it means to be a writer. A blogger. I guess a writ-ger. I don’t know what it means to be a mother most days. I am not even sure, after five short but full of life, years of marriage...

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Swaddle

The babies are TWO. My sweet little babies that once laid perfectly still … all three fitting on one swaddle blanket. Grunting and making fists and fighting against new eyes to see a tired world that...

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Pregnancy Thoughts, Finally. Part 1

Hmm. I haven’t been here for a while. In some ways I am a little sad because I did such an over the top job chronicling and expressing how I felt when I was on my pregnancy journey with the triplets,...

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Pregnancy Thoughts, Part 2 (as in 40 weeks, 1 day pregnant)

    At this point I am obviously no longer with child…however, this is part of the story. (Birth story in the works) Here is a spoiler alert…she is here and she is beautiful.  I wrote the below post...

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Tupelo Honey

So this took me almost nine weeks to write. Forgive me, mommy-blogging by-laws of personal birth announcements. Excuse my language, but it’s been a bit of a shit storm around here, literally. That’s...

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Unsolicited Mothering Advice.

They, whoever they are - the ones that make up all the heart string pulling quotes like “Kids are your heart walking around outside of your body..” or “The days are long and the years are short”  -...

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Rebirth.Part 1:The Exhale

I just haven’t had the time or energy to write, and when I do, I haven’t been hitting publish because my story doesn’t seem to be tied up with a pretty bow yet. Bloggers are often guilty of telling a...

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Rebirth Part 2: The Last Part.

I, without much thought, committed myself to an ongoing saga of my “rebirth.” That’s really cute. I need another commitment like I need another kid. So, as much as I very neatly want to write about...

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Stillness.

It has been a pivotal week around here. An old dream resurfaced. Two hot and dark, like steamy morning coffee, yoga classes. Fresh air over 50 degrees and kids running at the park with snotty noses. A...

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Whatever is Lovely

In the course of 24 hours the thoughts that run through my head are not anywhere near always lovely. Yet these types of things happen all around me: Josie’s big open mouth in the morning ready to...

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Sunrises

I wrote this post over several days during the last week. I wasn’t going to share it because it seemed so “dark.” Then I thought, well, so what if it is? God made the light and the dark. So here’s to...

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