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Kepler’s Birth Story: Water, Water, Everywhere

March 26, 2012

Seems that I have a pattern of prodromal labor and going late. My babies don't seem late, though, nor do they get too large, so I think I've learned that I can easily let them bake away for an extra week or two with no concern.
That said, I get impatient and very uncomfortable at the [...]

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Baby Boy is Here!

February 20, 2012

Some of you may have seen the announcement on Facebook late last week, but just to make it official...
Our newest son was born at home on Wednesday, February 15th at 9:07pm!
A birth story with more details is coming, but to satisfy at least a little bit of curiosity in the meantime, he weighed 7 lbs 7 [...]

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The Most Popular Posts of 2011

January 2, 2012

I hope that you've all had a restful and memorable time with your family during the Christmas season! Our holidays were relatively uneventful, but still wonderful.
My husband and I took a couple days away the week before Christmas to do some dreaming and goal-setting for the coming year. Then we spent a quiet week preparing [...]

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September at Our Home

September 29, 2011

I can hardly believe that fall is upon us already, but the beautiful crimson leaves outside my window attest to the fact that it's true. I am always sad to see the summer go, especially since we had such a short season of truly warm summer weather here in the Pacific Northwest, and yet I [...]

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Why My Husband Rocks (and Union 28 Giveaway)

September 12, 2011

*Giveaway has now ended*
A few years ago, I remember seeing one of my dear friends in the cutest shirt. It said:
"I love skinny guys with glasses" and it had a stick drawing of a skinny guy wearing (what else?) glasses.
What makes this shirt awesome is that her husband just happens to be a skinny, glasses-wearing, [...]

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Even Real Food Bloggers Get the Blues (and How to Keep Nutrition Up in Busy, Stressful Seasons)

August 8, 2011

**I shared our exciting news the other day, which entirely relates to the re-posting of this post from almost exactly one year ago. Morning sickness, fatigue and some other challenging circumstances have made it a real struggle to put decent food on the table (or desire to eat it, for that matter) these past two [...]

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All Our Little Ducks in a Row (And Baby Makes 6)

August 2, 2011

You know you must be tired when you're a writer and you have exciting news and the only way that you can think of announcing it is to simply blurt it out...
We're expecting baby #4!
Upon returning home from our trip to the Philippines with Compassion International (literally, the day after we got home), we [...]

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10 Posts I Didn’t Write in 2010

December 20, 2010

Tonight I've been sipping on tea and taking a leisurely stroll through my gorgeous new heirloom seed catalogue... hard to believe that this year is already drawing to a close and that I am beginning to think forward to next spring and summer.
It is also stunning to me that another year has flown by here [...]

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Fresh Voices and Perspectives at Keeper of the Home

August 9, 2010

I love writing at Keeper of the Home. It has been a delight for me to be able to share daily these past (almost) 3 years, on topics like natural living, nutrition and real food, faith, gentle mothering, homemaking and more.
It has been a surprising joy to establish this ministry of encouraging and building up [...]

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Learning to Live With Less

April 20, 2010

In a little over two months, our family will be moving to a new abode.
This move is exciting for a number of reasons. The new house has more bedrooms and will allow us to have a girls bedroom and a boys bedroom (yes, we only have one boy so far, but we hope to have [...]

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