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J sports his “Team Emily” shirt I made him. My husband was a skeptic initially about the whole “doula” idea….
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The headache of making myself a salad is mitigated

The headache of making myself a salad is mitigated by the joy that it cuts down on my headaches, literally. What’s in your fav salad? #kitchensink

People get really into this baby v dreams debate a

People get really into this baby v dreams debate and I don’t have strong opinions. I just think we do what is in front of us and try to give of ourselves in ways we’ve been gifted. For years that meant baby after baby while blogging and sewing and editing at night. Right now it means a baby and a new book collab between Harper Collins and Blessed is She out today ⏩ In five years it will probably look different. What gifts have you been given and how can you share them? That’s the real, hard, deep, and challenging to do question. Also most of our lives are not glamorous so if you’re trying to escape the boredom and mundane (chocolate in the pantry helps), I’ve learned everything worth doing is (surprise!) riddled with hard and mundane parts. #babiesandbooks #bissisterhood #moreinstories #cleanthemirrornell

Hidden graces. So many hidden graces. Instead of b

Hidden graces. So many hidden graces. Instead of being nourished at a spiritual retreat, I was steeped in normal home life. I cried. I had felt really desperate for the break. But then, surprise! Still felt the graces He had set aside for me. In loads of laundry, in skinned knees, in homemade dinners and heaps of dishes, in late-night older kid processing, in a baby with teething snot everywhere, just a big testimony to say, God works outside of our plans to still love us. I haven’t ever felt this kind of reassurance when plans changed🕯 #nellmuses #bissisterhood

“Our crosses are personalized, these us-shaped c

“Our crosses are personalized, these us-shaped challenges to grow in virtue, and they’re not always something life-or-death. Consider what circumstances you’re in that you’d rather avoid. Jesus wants us to turn back around, pick up that phone, and face them.” More in my devotion for @blessedisshe__ today // link in bio #bissisterhood

Eight months. Eight months since my body was slowl

Eight months. Eight months since my body was slowly sliced open to reveal this incredible person who had been growing there for 37 weeks. My body is still soft and lumpy and this fifth time I may have finally made peace with that? Physical therapy for a destroyed pelvic floor and SI joints has been fruitful, but I’m not sure I can find my core muscles really. I didn’t gain much weight with another hyperemesis pregnancy so I’m back to my pre-birth weight which is still decades of pounds beyond where I was after the first two kids. I don’t know, you guys. Can we just love that we are alive right now? Can we save the names we call ourselves til … never? Can we say, “I’m grateful and I’m alive.” And just end it at that? It’s my crusade right now. You? #nellmuses #postpartumbody #eightmonths

He knows how to comfort me when I’m devastated,

He knows how to comfort me when I’m devastated, and listens when I say I need to cry and receive verbal affirmations. Mothering has been hard and heavy lately and the switch to school and a bazillion details it entails has taken the last few of my pieces of grit leftover from a four-month sprint on book projects. Guys, no suffering goes to waste. I had a meltdown and then turned it over to my Lord. I gave it over just like I said in my bis devo the other day. That or give up. Whatever you’re buckling under, give it to Him. #linkinbio #ifyoumissedit #nellmuses

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