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Over At Early Mama: The Joy of Young Parenthood
I’m over at Early Mama today talking about millennial parenthood. My husband and I were married shortly after our 22nd birthdays. We were pregnant by 23, though we hadn’t planned on becoming pregnant...
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For Better or For Worse: The Beauty of Marriage In the Middle
I love how this worked out: last week we had a gorgeous question-mark of a blog that asked, “Is Marriage What I Think It Will Be?” In that blog, Meredith spent time exploring her secret hopes and...
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*This is an anonymous post about a wedding night from a close friend of mine* “For you, the person who waits, your wedding day and night will be everything: every Hallmark card, every romance novel,...
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The House We’ve Built: A Marriage That Lasts
We are in a season of life where we are holding on with dear life to our sanity. We bought a house. I’m writing a book. We have two toddlers in diapers. There are some days where I think, “This isn’t...
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When the Directions Might Be Wrong: On Sex and Purity Culture
When The Directions Might Be Wrong Karissa and I share more than a few things in common. We both grew up in Thailand, separated only by a decade and a few hundred miles. She is a writer and educator,...
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A Love Story: The First Strand of A Thousand
“That way we shall create a thousand strands, great and small, that will link us together. Then we shall be so close that it would be impossible — unthinkable — for either of us to suppose that we...
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July: What I’m Into or A Much Needed Vacation
This morning my close friend Kim had her baby, little Whitcomb, and he is safe and sound, and somehow that makes everything seem a little more right in the world. We just arrived back from Sequoia...
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An Umbrella Taught Me About Motherhood
As a rule, I do not use umbrellas. Umbrellas are for gorgeous people straddling the white lines in the parking lot. I do not use umbrellas also because I can never find an umbrella. Never. Never have...
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Money Doesn’t Buy Marital Bliss
Weddings are expensive—scrap that—weddings can put you underwater and even into debt. A national survey at theKnot.com showed that the average cost of a wedding is now a hefty $29,858. That seems...
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Lessons In Cuddling
We were in Chicago a few weeks ago and the kids ran around the house and actually slept at night (by golly!). Then this thing happened, that hasn’t happened for a little while. First, I put Kaiden...
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