When I was sick last year a friend came and helped us out for a week. On one of my few visits to the kitchen I discovered a clean microwave and felt so cared for. Emily ran upstairs at another moment and exclaimed, “Mom, you should see the floor. It is so clean! I love…
Thoughts
Bringing Back Structure and Self Care
The last month I’ve been trying to be flexible. I’ve let go of a lot of our schedule and slacked on routines. For me it has been a healthy way to manage postpartum anxiety as well as “Come what may and love it.” It has become apparent, however, that the majority of the Jacksons here really…
Recommitting To Motherhood
In a lot of ways this last year has been all about me, at least inside my head. How am I going to meet my needs and take care of myself? And please go to bed so I can get to the things I really want to do! And I need to sleep. The list…
What I Learned from the Hard Things in 2017
This last year has been a continuous flow of difficult circumstances. I spent the first few months of the year learning in the waiting. As soon as I had found peace there I became pregnant and experienced a physically challenging pregnancy. The physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion and pain continued for nine months to varying…
Mr. Jackson Goes to Washington
A lesson I have been learning over and over again this last year is that divine help is readily available. God will walk with me daily. He will guide and magnify my thoughts, efforts, and abilities if I ask. He is the source of all success and strengthening. It is a very humbling, joyful learning…
38 Weeks
The last two weeks have been full of pre-labor symptoms, mostly during the night. I finally figured out that if I walk at night then all contractions stop and I can sleep. My routine has now flipped and I love having my mornings back to doing something besides walking and stretching for an hour! I’ve…
What We’ve Decided About Screen Time
Screen time is a hot topic with loads of opinions, research, and ideas. For me it as been a long developing journey. I’ll spare the details of how we got to where we are and tell you where we are at right now with just a teeny tiny bit of background. For the longest time…
Carving Wooden Animals and Accepting Me
I have been trying to be pretty strategic about the toys that enter our home. One on my list for awhile was wooden animals. Unfortunately the ones I really like are rather expensive, so I decided to make some. I started trying to carve with my pocket knife which was super slow going. Andrew came…
30 Weeks
First off, we are having a girl!! We think! We had the anatomy scan at the end of June. The tech spent about 45 minutes with us and tried many times to figure out the gender. No luck – we were told we’d find out in November. I went to Utah and three weeks later…
Brain Dump
I’m out of the habit of blogging. I have loads of pictures from the last few months to process and record memories from. I have so many thoughts and ideas to share. Ideas of posts are written out in lists to start checking off. But today, a brain dump about all areas of life, some…