The Family Meeting
With six people in our family, it sometimes feels like a war zone to be fully heard. We share what we can at family dinner, we touch base with one...
Jacquelyn Senske
Friday Pizza and Movie Night
When my husband and I were first married, he worked for Ernst & Young and I was at Target. We were fresh out of college, rode the bus downtown together,...
Home Interior Decor Updates for the Fall Season
The air is cooling off, the days are getting shorter, pumpkin spice lattes are in constant flow, and those beautiful MN fall colors are starting to pop. This is such...
Five Years Later, 1 in 4
It’s been five years since I held my son’s tiny body in my hands. At just shy of halfway through my pregnancy, he was small enough to fit in...
Get Your Swimsuit On!… Trends for 2020
Currently, I’m watching giant snowflakes that resemble ash flow down from the sky. Hard to be in the mood, a bit, to write about the upcoming swimsuit season. But,...
Best Book Recommendations (So Far!) in 2020
We would wake up super early on those spring Thursday mornings. You had to if you wanted to get the good stuff. With my purple wallet tucked safely inside my...
Soul, Mind AND Body
I have always been a morning person. I love waking up before my family, grabbing my hot cup of coffee and, with pen in hand, opening up my journal. I...
Growing Up Blended
Moments captured by Noemi Photography While at a school function, I ran into an old college friend the other day and she introduced me to her boyfriend. I asked...
What to Wear, Oh What to Wear?… Your Holiday Style Guide
On your front door hangs a beautifully rustic green and red wreath. Your Christmas cards are in the mailbox, garland is wrapped around the stair banister, your Grandma’s favorite nativity...
My Season Opener
The leaves crunch beneath my feet as I navigate the trail with my headlamp. A flash of bright pink on a small tree gives me my bearings. There is only...
One in Four: Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Month
I remember the feeling of cold. My body physically shaking, my soul defeated, the space seemingly void of warmth. It was 6AM and I was in a large room surrounded...
Click + Create + Document!
I didn’t have a phone until I was a senior in college. When I finally got one, it was the kind that slid apart to reveal a tiny keyboard, and...
National Middle Child Day
I’m a classic middle child in my family – but also a little bit of an oldest. I had the unique position when I was growing up that, for a...
The Red Phone: An Adoption Birth Story (Part II)
The last biological son I gave birth to was 9lbs 10oz so when the nurse told us we were being discharged the day after we met our daughter (who weighed...