All You Who Hope

I love making costumes. I like sorting out who my kids want to be... the creativity of sewing, gluing, painting, taping... seeing my children's faces light up when they put on the finished product.
What I don't love is the process of finding the time to make them and getting myself sufficiently motivated to do so. Take this year, for example. Time is running out and not one costume has been completed. It's as if I didn't know the dates of Halloween...

My life is kind of an open book. From back in the days when I would post our very emotional struggles to conceive on my infertility blog, to today as I share daily photos of our intimate family life on my Facebook photography page, I have always been...

I had another miscarriage in January. I got the news, via ultrasound, one year to the day after hearing the same news at an ultrasound last year. Two miscarriages, one year apart. Imagine that luck. I'll never again make an appointment for the seventh...

My younger sister Amy needs some help, and she asked me if she could use my blog to reach out for it. Of course, it was the least I could do. I will let her tell her story, but I will say that I love her and her family very much. They are incredible...