Shotsnaps

I'm typing with one hand because the other arm is filled with baby.   A narrow rivulet of milk runs from the corner of her lips, she so...

We couldn't have asked for a better way to bring a baby into the world. At least, that's true if you're talking to me ; J...

The van was still in convalescence the next day, so my mom brought the girls down so they could meet Cadence while the boys stayed at home ...

John and I weren't able to leave the hospital until 9:30 p.m., so everyone was asleep when we got home, and it wasn't until the nex...

Zeke turned four on Sunday, and I present a funny sequence of pictures from his birthday breakfast. 1. Annika lights the candle. 2. The...

After we got back from church, I called Zeke so I could tuck him in for a nap, but he came upstairs with his hands full.  John had turned h...

Sunday was also the day of Cadence's baptism. God hold you close, little one.

Millie made Cadence a little headband for her baptism.  It looked so tiny when she finished, but it somehow grew by the time it reache...

Aidan tells me again just how wonderful this new doll is. We were just given many bags of clothes and goodies from a kind lady, an...

The best way to visit your father's grave for the second time, a year and a half since you first stood there--that first and only time-...

I curled in bed and watched the gray flush peach and gold while saluting the bird that would not cease outside my window its unrelenting ...