While chatting with a friend who is due to give birth to her first baby, she confessed that she is a little nervous about welcoming her little one after having so much time to herself. Unlike me, who had four kids by the time I was 28, this friend did things a bit more responsibly…
Unplanned Pregnancy
Your Lines: Being The Best Mom I Can Be
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…
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,…
Heartbeat, Intl. Fundraising Efforts Update
A few months ago, I shared a pretty lofty goal to donate 1,000 copies of my book, Tiny Blue Lines, to the annual Heartbeat, Intl. conference this spring. (You can read more about the project here.) Although I thought it would be lovely, I never really expected to raise enough to send that many copies…
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…
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…
Have You Ever…?
Have you ever woke up in the morning and just thought, “I can’t do this today…”? Have you ever been forced to sit in the bathroom with your toddler while he takes an actual 20-minute dump and you envision a life that could have been spent doing anything but cleaning up poop constantly? Have you…
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…