2025 – Thoughts from Blue Eyes

just one more minute

Please, just one more minute

of rocking in our chair.

Please stop growing up so fast and getting too big to curl up on my shoulder.

Just one more minute of tiny baby snuggles

Coos and chirps as you sleepily cuddle on my chest

Drifting off to the sound of my singing.

Just one more minute of being unable to crawl, being nine months old (barely almost), your tooth not fully in, your wiggling and giggling when I say “oh no!” and we make a mess of sweet potato puree on the floor.

One more moment of clapping hands, of chewing on Tupperware lids, of being content to sit and play by yourself with your touch and feel books while I watch you explore.

Just one more minute of 9-12 month pajamas even though the zippers and snaps and magnets barely fit over your chubby thighs and you resemble a little sausage casing.

Please, just one more minute of

just one more minuteKaitlyn2025-09-08T01:27:31+00:00

I Will Praise Your Name at the City Gates

We are preparing to leave the city, and it’s surreal. I have packed boxes, sorted through mementos and winter coats and baby clothes and kitchen utensils and all the other things one does when moving. I have gone from a young woman eager for her next adventure in college to a graduate with a dream job to a honeymooning newlywed to a first-time mom while living among these skyscrapers and trains. I have done over a decade of life with the traffic and sirens in the background, a weird soundtrack but one that became mine. I wrestled with some of the toughest questions I’ve had, been angry at God, rejoiced deeper than I’ve ever had, learned hard things, and grew strong roots in Christ here.

Bunny Baby is a little over eight months old, and her face is changing – lengthening, looking more like a toddler, becoming less and less of

I Will Praise Your Name at the City GatesKaitlyn2025-08-17T17:23:17+00:00

little baby love

I have a seven month old. WHAT IS MY LIFE. WHAT IS THIS TIME it’s flying, and yet slow and simple and beautiful. I can’t believe how the weeks melt together and all of sudden my baby is longer, her face looks more like a little girl’s instant of a small baby’s, she is developing her personality more and more. She has become the happiest person I know. SO MANY SMILES and laughs and chirps. She gets a bashful at strangers but also smiles at everyone and is so happy to be alive, bouncing up and down on her chunky legs because she recently figured out she can do that in her excersaucer and when I hold her under her arms.

I love her so much. Motherhood is precious – I get to experience life through a tiny person to whom everything is magical – looking at trees in the park,

little baby loveKaitlyn2025-07-19T16:12:28+00:00

Sacred Moments, Halcyon Days

Dear Bunny,

You are taking your long morning nap and I’m sitting on the couch thinking about you. How you are seven months old (!!) and the light of my whole life. Your dad and I constantly talk about how sweet it is to have you in our lives – you are SO MUCH FUN, with your giggles and smiles and endless entertainment as we watch you do the simplest things. You add color and substance and fullness to our life in ways I never could have imagined.

Right now, our routine is pretty simple. You wake up around 8am. You nurse, then play, then poop, then eat breakfast, then take a bottle and nap for two hours. Then we get you up and play some more, usually trying to go on a walk or an errand together around the neighborhood. I talk a lot with family and do snatches of work

Sacred Moments, Halcyon DaysKaitlyn2025-07-12T16:20:31+00:00

Things God Has Taught Me: Motherhood Edition 1

I was pushing Bun’s stroller down the street, walking with a friend, when she asked me a great question: “What has God taught you since becoming a mom?”

OH, so many things. Recording them here while I have the time.

I need Jesus. All the time. More than I ever thought.

Motherhood is brutally humbling. It’s not about maxing out or reaching your capacity; it’s about falling on the ground with your capacity broken. It’s about crying out to the Lord that you can’t do it anymore, that you’re overwhelmed and you can’t do it. And He gives you your daily bread to keep going. He brings you through. He enables you to do it, one hour and sometimes even just one minute at a time to love and care for this precious little person He has brought into your life.

God loves us through His people.

When I was blearily stumbling through the early

Things God Has Taught Me: Motherhood Edition 1Kaitlyn2025-07-09T02:50:31+00:00

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for all these beautiful days with Bunny together. For our sweet mornings when I turn off her fans and sing The Good Morning to You song and she’s so happy to be alive. For playing on the floor together and looking at books. For her little laughs when I blow kisses at her. How excited she gets when I take her clothes off her bath time. How she smiles when she sees Daddy. How she kicks and wiggles and bats at her little friends when she’s in her bouncer seat. How serious she is and curious when seeing new people and being in new environments. How much she loves crunchy paper and toys that make noise. Her beautiful round blossom peach face and beautiful blue eyes and beautiful smile and happy happy grin. Her tiny hands and tiny toes and her big fat belly and

Thank you, Lord.Kaitlyn2025-06-20T15:56:02+00:00

Mom thoughts: Easter

It’s the afternoon of Easter Sunday, and I nursed you to help you calm down to sleep. You rested your head on me so gently and have the most perfect, squishy, trusting face. You know you are loved and cuddled and safe with mommy. I love you so much my heart is bursting. I marvel at your smallness, I rejoice in your existence. I am in awe of all your tiny pieces and parts. I delight in your smile and hurt when you’re sad. I want to hold you in my arms forever. I want mommy to always be comforting and safe. You are my sunshine, my bunny sunshine. I praise Jesus for every moment with you and thank him every day that we can be together. Thank you Jesus for new life physically and spiritually, that death is dead and love has won, that we can have hope and joy

Mom thoughts: EasterKaitlyn2025-06-20T15:54:26+00:00

Mom thoughts: five months

We are approaching your five month birthday. You are my joy, Bunny. I wish I had hours to just stare into your face and smile together and laugh and play. We do this all the time but I always wish I had more. I love you, sweet girl. You are so expressive and noisy these days, learning about your voice and all the sounds you can make. Shrieking, growling, and rawring are my favorites! You wake up twice a night now, sometimes three (RIP) since you started this sleep regression a few weeks ago. The Lord helps me and sustains us. I actually feel pretty okay most of the time, usually a tired spell in the later afternoon around 3pm but pretty energized and able to manage most days. I’ve had some aches and pains here and there as you’ve gotten bigger – headaches, shoulder tension for a few days

Mom thoughts: five monthsKaitlyn2025-06-20T15:53:52+00:00

Mom thoughts: six months

Dear Bunny,

How is it that I am now the mother of a 6-month-old? I’m currently lying on the floor doing my stretches because I have sciatica. I’ve had a bad flare up since you were about 4 and 1/2 months old. It’s been coming and going, and physical therapy helps, but it’s very obnoxious and at times very painful. You have really pushed me to my limits in so many ways, Bunny girl. At times, I think my heart will explode with how much I love you and how I long to be with you all the time. I miss you when you’re asleep. I look at pictures and videos of you when you are napping and at night time. I love you so so so much little one. You’ve changed my life in the best way possible and I am eternally grateful that God has given you

Mom thoughts: six monthsKaitlyn2025-06-20T15:46:16+00:00

For all you new moms: thoughts

Dear friend!

I am SO TREMENDOUSLY excited for you. Becoming a mom is an amazing experience, a joy I can’t articulate. Motherhood is the greatest blessing I have literally ever experienced in my entire life. It has been so hard (especially the beginning) and the most challenging thing I have ever experienced too. I feel like becoming a mom deepens your love, your heart, your walk with Jesus in ways you can’t even imagine. I was in the process of collecting my thoughts about everything and wanted to send you some encouragement and wisdom. Totally take it or leave it – just wanted to share with you and literally zero.pressure.at.all. My sister-in-law sent me something similar when I was pregnant and it was really encouraging to me.

Please please please reach out to me any time. I want to be available to encourage you, pray for

For all you new moms: thoughtsKaitlyn2025-04-18T14:36:33+00:00

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