Elliot’s birth story, pt 2
Click here to read part 1 Second stage Around 9:30 pm I was rocking back and forth on hands and knees when I felt the first urge to push. Or rather, I started pushing because it was almost impossible not…
Click here to read part 1 Second stage Around 9:30 pm I was rocking back and forth on hands and knees when I felt the first urge to push. Or rather, I started pushing because it was almost impossible not…
* This post includes unfiltered details of birth and bodily fluids * Pregnancy “Inhale.”I lift my arms up over my head and lean to the right, feeling the stretch release tension all through my body. “Exhale.” For twenty minutes I move, slow…
What would you do if money didn’t matter? It’s an odd, speculative question to ask yourself, but I think it might be important. In all honesty, it is easy to be cynical and call it a waste of time because…
If you have spent even a little bit of time in church, you have probably heard people say things like, “do not be anxious”, “fear not”, and “give all your worries to Jesus, he cares of you”. The reason these…
Remember how I shared a little reflection about making plans in my previous post?Turns out I needed that reminder for myself many times the last few weeks. Our trip to Virginia became a windy road of delay, sickness, car trouble,…
I am convinced it was during my very first conversation with Wes that I learned about vanlife. Are you familiar with vanlifers? They are people that minimize and move their lives into a van and take on the road. Some…
In the same way I never could’ve imagined that the entire world could be put on hold in such a drastic way, I never thought that our move to Redding, CA would come to a sudden end in three months…
I admit that this blog post is well overdue, considering that we have been in Redding for almost eight weeks and all I’ve shared in this blog series is where we stayed the first night we were in Redding. Needless…
I’m skipping a couple of weeks in the story of our move to keep you updated on our situation, which has developed very interestingly the last few days. Wednesday morning I woke up at 06.58 to news I’ve been anticipating…
In the second chapter of the story about how Wesley and I moved to Redding we will meet Gonzales, a nonchalant immigration officer and Fadi, a lebanese car dealer in southern Sacramento. We will also get introduced to a man…