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Our Birth Story
Our rainbow baby Beau Robert Faison was born on April 10, 2020 at 12:45 pm and weighed 7 lbs 8.8 oz 21 inches long. He is absolutely perfect in every way. He was born at the onset of a national pandemic. It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year since a day I thought…
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Pregnancy After Miscarriage is So Hard
In honor of Pregnancy After Loss Awareness Month, I’m republishing the blog post I wrote when I was 19 weeks pregnant with our rainbow baby. Pregnancy after loss is so hard and it taught me not to take things for granted. It taught me how naive I was my first three pregnancies. It taught me…
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Let’s teach our daughters THIS.
Daughters are so much different than sons aren’t they?! There’s a much different relationship between a mother and a daughter than there is between a mother and her son. We tend to be harder on our daughters. We push them and challenge them at times when we might react a little less stern to our…
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Motherhood Isn’t Always About the Kids
I am 34 years old and have 4 kids, 2 step kids, and one angel baby, all ranging from 18 years to 10 months old. My motherhood journey has been just that. A journey. A crazy, messy, beautiful, roller coaster ride of a journey. I often think about my 20 year old self about to…
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Dollar Tree Spring Decor
This is a budget friendly post about how to take some cheap $1 items from Dollar Tree and make them look super cute in your home for spring! First I bought speckled egg garland and since one strip was not very long I bought two and tied them together! I added this new and improved…
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