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We have a little summer routine: sweetest babysitt

We have a little summer routine: sweetest babysitter comes in the morning while I nurse babe down for nap and do some reading or writing, we hustle off to the pool and tennis courts for lessons, the afternoon is for audio books, coloring, and physical and verbal attacks, and the evening is spent with Dada while he rests his knee and they continue the siege of one another’s emotional battlements. Toss in family scooping the kids up for a BBQ or me going on a tropical vacation called the grocery store alone. Lots of violin practice slash protest. Someone sorting laundry and someone tossing perfectly clean socks down the laundry shoot. And everyone eating berries right out of the garden. I’m keeping the world and too many commitments at bay for as long as I can. Guardian of childhood over here! 📯⚔️🛡#nellmuses #somanysquabbles #allafternoon

Just six weeks this Friday from his major knee sur

Just six weeks this Friday from his major knee surgery and he’s slowly back at it. I marvel at how well he’s doing and how far he has to go, all at once. It’s been the hardest and sweetest time. Our whole summer has had to slow down, no trips, no outings except church, no getting together until he’s significantly better. But maybe by the end of it he will be able to come with us to the pool, to play baseball again with the kids, to walk up and down the stairs with the baby. Giving thanks for a phenomenal doctor and now physical therapist. Quietly mourning the plans I hoped we could do. But maybe that’s most of life, being grateful while acknowledging you can’t do it all. #nellmuses

My kids fielded a lot of questions about why they

My kids fielded a lot of questions about why they had five kids in their family today as we started our summer swimming and tennis. I know it seems like a lot of kids. But I reminded my kids that the reason it’s not polite to comment on people’s family size is because you have no idea what their journey has been. What if they lost a baby or more? What if they had trouble conceiving or adopting? So while they heard, “FIVE!?!” I asked them to not respond with, “Why one or two in your family?” Every family has its own story and unless they choose to share (like I do!), it’s none of anyone’s beeswax. That being said, he is the most loved baby number 5 in the world. #nellmuses

Life has given me more sisters than I could have d

Life has given me more sisters than I could have dreamed of. God brought these women into my life and I couldn’t imagine it without them! Our Minnesota writers at the Blessed is She revival night. First we brunched, laughed, and dreamed. Then we prayed, cried, and hugged. Sounds about right. Missing them already as I’m back to tidying, grocery shopping, and nursing down for a nap 🤍🤍🤍#bissisterhood #bisrevival

Prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary this

Prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary this am on this Feast of the Sacred Heart and thought about a little Scripture for each mystery. I always feel like I’m consoling Jesus’ Sacred Heart when I meditate on them 🤍🤍🤍🔥🔥🔥 #bissisterhood

Who wants a free ticket to the Fly Revival tomorro

Who wants a free ticket to the Fly Revival tomorrow night in Saint Paul? Tag a friend below who needs to know she’s loved today and I’ll pick a winner tonight! It’s 7-9pm at Saint John the Baptist in New Brighton 💫 My boys are quite bummed they can’t come but I promised my girls it’s just a few years away 🤩 #bissisterhood

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