Time to tally up how we did last year on our New Year’s Resolutions for Borealis! 1. Challenge ourselves to have more adventures We have learned our lesson on this one. When we came up with the “Adventure” category for Borealis, Jen and I thought we’d be writing posts about fabulous trips, amazing outings with […]
Our favorite posts of 2013
December 30, 2013 by
Readers choose their favorites, of course, but sometimes we just want to write about what we love. These are our favorites from 2013. Jen’s favorite posts Don’t get me wrong, I love a good freezer casserole or adorable hedgehog baby onesie how-tos as much as the next girl, but I love these posts too, which […]
Five resolutions for the New Year
December 26, 2013 by
(Looking for a pretty free printable calendar? I love the ones by Love vs. Design.) I used to be hot on New Year’s Resolutions, but then I cooled, preferring to see where life led me. But this year I am raring to make change. I think it has something to do with emerging from the […]
A prayer
October 15, 2013 by
Today, on National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, we offer a prayer: a prayer of peace and healing for those who have lost pregnancies and babies, a prayer of thanks for our children, and a prayer of hope for those who are still waiting for their own healthy pregnancies and babies. After my second miscarriage […]
The importance of fall
September 17, 2013 by
Fall comes just in time, doesn’t it? Although our children sprouted like the weeds in our yard this summer, and blossomed under Adam’s daily care, it was time to return to a life of structure. And discipline. And clothes. By the end of the summer our little heathen was refusing to wear pajamas at night. […]
In two years
August 19, 2013 by
This post was first published last week on my other blog, My Life in Red, on the second anniversary of my first heart attack. I didn’t plan on writing it, and I had no idea how to celebrate this milestone, especially since I had a repeat heart event in September 2012. But I sat down […]
Um ya ya
August 5, 2013 by
I have a group of friends from college. We were all friends, of some sort, in college, but we have been solidified through time and the addition of spouses into kind of a set group, a dozen or so couples all living in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area (and a dozen or so more spread throughout […]
Making the milk
July 16, 2013 by
Most women have a love/hate, or love to hate, relationship with pumping. How can you not, when you look like this: Photo courtesy of Simple Wishes Handsfree Breastpump bra, a product I stand behind (or in, ha ha). Because who doesn’t want to take their boobs out at work and attach machinery to them? This […]