The Siena Blanket (With Pattern)

  From the first moments after hearing of Siena’s diagnosis last fall, I knew that I wanted to knit a blanket for her.  I just knew that I needed to do it.  Selecting a pattern, colors, yarn…. it was all very therapeutic.  What I...

Sacramental New Year and Bonus Babies

January 1st was an extra special day this year for our family.   In addition to being the beautiful Solemnity of Mary Mother of God, we celebrated Tomas’ baptism and Kylee’s First Holy Communion.  Godparents, relatives, and friends joined us for...

Tomas’ NICU Adventure

Before he was even two hours old, Tomas was already off on his first helicopter ride from our community hospital to the Mayo clinic and the waiting NICU.  If you haven’t already, be sure to read Tomas’ birth story leading up to this part of his first...

Welcome to The World Tomas Andrew

In case you haven’t heard, we welcomed our 4th son, Tomas Andrew, to our family early in the morning on Sunday, November 29th.  It will take me a couple of posts to get through the craziness of the last two weeks, but I wanted to start with his birth story...

The Impetus to Choose

Choice has always been something we have struggled a fair bit with in our Montessori inspired homeschool.  When Aidan was my only “official” homeschooling student we had more of a tutor:student relationship.  I didn’t initially set up a...

Hope: The #1 Anti-Anxiety Drug

I did not make it through my post-Kenna pregnancy with Kylee without the help of anti-anxiety meds.  I am not ashamed of that (and have no negative feelings towards anyone who does use them, just to be extra clear) but I did want to try and do without this time....