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Welcome! I'm Mandy. As a faith-filled mother, entrepreneur, writer, aspiring farmer, animal lover, and free-thinker, I enjoy writing about a variety of topics that have the potential to educate and help other people live lives they love.
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Chapter Twelve: What We Carry (opens the original)
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Chapter Eleven: The Second Visit (opens the original)
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Slow Days, Sick Days, and the Gift of Motherhood (opens the original)
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Dear reader,Whenever I sit down to write, I’m reminded how much I love it. It’s been a while since I’ve had the headspace to share anything meaningful, but today the chance finally showed up.Lately, when I get the babies (three under four!) napping at the same time, my postpartum-foggy brain does one of two things: I sleep, or I listen to lessons for the next certification I’ll be pursuing. Today is different. The whole house has come down with our first illness of the year. Everyone is weatheri
The Defining Trait of a Healthy Marriage: Forgiveness (opens the original)
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If you asked me years ago what makes a marriage work, I probably would have said communication. Or compatibility. Or “marrying your best friend.”I still believe in all of that. But the longer I’m in this — the longer I watch couples in my own circle, in my own family, in the DMs I get from women who write to me at 11 pm because they can’t sleep — the more I come back to one word.Forgiveness.Not the greeting-card version. The real, gritty, “I am furious at you, and I chose you anyway this morning
Baby Dahlia’s Unmedicated Water Home Birth Story (opens the original)
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Dear reader,This is the third time I’ve decided to publicly share the experience of having a non-traditional birthing experience. Why share such (possibly) graphic and intimate details with the public? Because, dear friend, life is sacred.In today’s world, it has become increasingly common to treat all forms of life as disposable – whether humans in the womb or a man on the side of the road. People, animals, plants – although all at risk to the cycles and harsh realities of life – are valuable.F
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