Your Lines is a series that chronicles YOUR stories seeing those first two lines that marked the beginning of your motherhood. If you want to share your own story of unplanned pregnancy or young motherhood, please email me at [email protected]. A week after I turned 22 my parents came to visit me for what…
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Thank You!
Just wanted to say a very special THANK YOU to all of you who donated, shared, or otherwise supported my efforts to send Tiny Blue Lines to the annual Heartbeat Conference this year. I am so, so grateful and frankly, amazed that with all the worthy causes out there, there were still people willing to…
Get Tiny Blue Lines For Only $5 This Month!
Exciting news! My book, Tiny Blue Lines: Reclaiming Your Life, Preparing For Your Baby, and Moving Forward in Faith in an Unplanned Pregnancy, is on sale this month through my publisher, Ave Maria Press, for only $5! 5 dollars?! I couldn’t even buy it that for that price as the author! And while on one hand,…
Your Lines: Rebecca Taulbee
Today’s mom is Rebecca of Our Life, Our Love, Our Story, sharing her journey as a young mom of two and a dreaming entrepreneur. Rebecca graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and is mom to 7-year-old son and a young daughter. Take it away, Rebecca! Tell us about yourself:…
Your Lines: The XX Mama and Student Pregnancy
Unlike the name may suggest, there’s nothing racy on this post, I assure you. Instead, there’s just a lot of raw honesty + inspiration from young mom Emily Urbanski, a student mother to an eight-month-old daughter. Emily blogs at XX Mama, where she says that she believes that “young mamas should be proud of themselves.” I…
Your Lines: Katie of Millennial Mama
Since sharing her story of her “two tiny blue lines,” Katie has also welcomed a beautiful little girl into their family. Follow Katie, a millennial mama of three, on Facebook. It all began when I peed on a stick. In less than a minute, the word “pregnant” flashed up on the little window, and my…
The Guilt Of Being A Pregnant Bride
So, yeah. My wedding was a lot of things I never imagined it would be. And one of the biggest surprises was how much guilt I felt in getting pregnant and ruining the “most magical” day of my life by being a big fatty. (And of course, now that I’ve been pregnant four times, I…
Unplanned Pregnancy Doesn’t Just Happen To Young Moms
Sometimes I forget that unplanned pregnancy doesn’t just happen to young moms. Here is the story of Edie and Erin Schmidt, who remind us that those two tiny blue lines can change our lives at any age. Find more from Edie on her website here. “Oh, look! Loooook!” I said, as I held up the…
The Gift of an Unplanned Pregnancy
As any of you who have known me from this timeish last year may know, I wasn’t exactly thrilled when I had another unplanned pregnancy. We were preparing for our first-ever vacation alone, sans kids, to an all-inclusive resort in Mexico (read: alcohol), completely paid for by my in-laws (read: amazing), and I couldn’t have been…
Your Lines: Melissa Cohen
Melissa is one of my favorite bloggers. Although we’ve never met “IRL,” I feel like we’ve somehow known each other forever. Plus, I feel a special pride in watching Melissa’s writing career grow and blossom, because she was a student in my first online freelance writing class. (*puffs chest with pride*) Be sure to stop…