From the category archives:

Babies (or the lack thereof)

Seizing the Childless Days: A Reader Response Post

July 19, 2010

Dear readers, I have a request of you. I have decided – rather late in the game, I admit – to try to make the most of my time without kids. I have been focusing so much energy in the last year-and-a-half on trying to have a baby, and mourning the fact that I have [...]

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Avery: A Story of Learned Desire

July 5, 2010

This is a longer version of a post I wrote about seven months ago, so parts might sound familiar. At the time it was too emotionally sensitive to post in full, but I’ve developed some space from it since. Maybe someone out there can see themselves in this story. Sometimes I wish to God I [...]

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Giving, Taking, and Parenthood

June 28, 2010

The other day a reader of mine — who also happens to be someone near and dear to my heart — left an interesting comment on one of my recent posts. In the post, I describe how my husband and I long to have a child to share our love with, since we have more [...]

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Sharing the Love: The Ache for Children

June 21, 2010

When you come across something mind-blowingly rad, you want to share it. That’s part of the reason social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Delicious are so popular: they enable us to share rad stuff with other folks. I don’t know about you, but as soon as I finish reading a truly brilliant article or [...]

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Do We, As a Society, Hate Children?

May 6, 2010

That’s what one commenter suggested on a recent online debate about whether kids should be allowed in church. Here’s what she said: I think our society hates kids. There, I’ve said it. We don’t want them at the grocery store, the shopping mall, or the sanctuary. We also hate the elderly. Obviously, this commenter was [...]

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Forgiveness

April 26, 2010

I wrote this several months ago. So no need to comfort me – I’m over it. But I thought the message was still relevant. Also, with this story, I risk making my husband out to be a really big jerk, but I promise he’s usually a super-nice guy and really supportive almost all the time. [...]

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I Have a Guest Post on a Really Awesome Blog That is Not About Marriage

March 18, 2010

This may shock you, but I don’t only read and write about marriage. In fact, lately I’m feeling so inundated by marriage talk that I swear if I get one more #marriagetip in my Twitter feed I am going to flip my proverbial lid. Consequently, I am delighted to direct you to a guest post [...]

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Some insights I’ve gained from my first month of Fertility Awareness

February 5, 2010

So I think you guys know that I started charting my cycles last month as I finally embraced Fertility Awareness.  I learned a ton during my experience of going from completely unaware of my body’s fertility patterns to somewhat aware. If you are interested in fertility awareness, but haven’t taken that first step yet, here [...]

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Prayers, God, and Empty Wombs

January 26, 2010

(I had a different post written for today, but after this morning it didn’t seem fitting). I have never had so many people tell me they’re praying for me. Friends, family members, and complete strangers from across the blogosphere have left me comments and sent me emails telling me their prayers were with me and [...]

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Three Things I've Learned While Trying to Conceive

December 4, 2009

Sorry to keep rollin’ along on this same theme of child-conception, but I thought I’d like to end the week on some positive notes before moving on to other topics within marriage next week. Here are some things that I’ve learned in the last seven months about trying (unsuccessfully) to have a baby. 1. What [...]

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