Author Archives: lauren

Let me preface what may seem like a heavy blog post by saying that I have the most amazing 8-month-old at home. If she doesn’t make you WANT [..]

Lately I’ve been in conversations with friends about their difficulty conceiving or their fear of infertility when they decide to have children. It wasn’t that long ago that [..]

Do you ever get that feeling that life is just a great big experiment – trial and error? I always appreciated that very wise and concise saying “Insanity [..]

A tip of the hat to two beautiful, perfect, wonderful years! This day two years ago, Aaron and I were making these vows. May they continue to hold [..]

We’ve all heard the well-worn and threadbare phrase about “stopping to smell the roses”, but speaking for myself I think I built up an immunity to its meaning. [..]

I dug out my long-forgotten sketchbook yesterday and out of it fell 2 pieces of yellow notebook paper. As I read my own handwriting, I smiled nostalgically at [..]

Every morning, Love beckons us into a new day. It whispers promises in our ear. It is the reason we lift our head 
from our pillow each morning. [..]

A couple weeks ago I set side my gardening gloves for my rubber ones, and reached into the shadowy depths of my pantry for a jug of distilled [..]

Tiny green leaves, barely visible from across the yard catch my eye. I gasp and rush toward my garden in breathless hope and expectation. I am not disappointed. [..]