It was March 10. Italy had just expanded its quarantine nationwide…while South Korea, another hotspot at the time, seemed to be slowing the spread through aggressive testing and contact tracing. In the US, New York was emerging as a hotspot…it was increasingly feeling much too close to home. About a month before that, my office …
Waiting to Exhale (Part 1)
When my first two sons were born, my husband and I had family come and help us out with the transition. With my first, my Mom stayed with us for 3months and with my second, my eldest sister stayed with us for 6months. Their sacrificial service was an inexpressible help. It’s hard to imagine how …
Blogging Again
February 21 (in just 2 days) will mark 3 years since I started working in the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters. I wish I’d blogged (and journaled) more faithfully…just for a record of how I processed through the transition. In fact, I haven’t been good at blogging since getting married—that’d make it 5 …
Q&A About Home birthing
I just stumbled across this email I sent to someone who asked me about my decision to birth our first son at home in 2016. It might answer someone else’s questions so I thought I’d share my responses here 🙂 How did you look for a midwife in your area and how was your midwife all in all? My …
Nevah Wouldah Made It…
Today marks the one year anniversary of my first day at this job. It has been quite a ride! The move from Michigan was rough. Financially. Emotionally. Socially. Rough. But here we are, one year later, and God has seen us through! When we filed our taxes, our tax preparer asked how we managed to …
Unfairly Blessed!
2017 has been jam-packed with miracles for my family so far! I can’t be exhaustive in this post but God deserves praise for all He has been doing for us so I must, at least, list some of the great things He has been doing. Baby Incoming: We begun this year with the good news …
on becoming a Mom
tomorrow will be my first Mothers’ Day as a Mom… I’m excited to celebrate it because becoming a mother is the single most challenging and rewarding experience I have ever had! I was never that girl or woman who just wanted to have babies it was actually through a logical reasoning process that I came …
2 months in
Our son turns 2 months old tomorrow! We praise the Lord for keeping him happy and healthy. We are so blessed! Becoming a parent has been an experience quite unlike anything else I’ve experienced thus far. I really can’t even think of what I could liken it to. Our son’s only been in the world …
He’s Here!
The very next day, he arrived! That is, our son, Leonardo Ittai Hlatywayo Daco, was born on February 1st. He’s 4 weeks old today at 7.02pm. Maybe it’s because I carried him in my womb for roughly 40 weeks before he entered the world, but I feel like he’s always been a part of my …
9 days more
Counting down to the arrival of our son reminds me of waiting for the second coming of Jesus!