Peace & Babies

I thought I was raising four babies. I didn't realize how much they were raising me, too.

For years, I dreamed about becoming a mother. Then came the waiting-the negative pregnancy tests, the uncertainty, and the question of whether the life I had always imagined would ever begin.

And then it did.

Peace & Babies is an honest memoir about the decade that followed: infertility and answered prayers, pregnancy and loss, breastfeeding and postpartum struggles, marriage and changing friendships, sobriety, identity, and the beautiful chaos of raising four children.

But more than anything, it's about what motherhood taught me the hard way.

About letting go of what I couldn't control. About giving myself and the people I love more grace. About realizing that some seasons don't need to be rushed through. And about learning that peace isn't found when life finally becomes perfect.

Sometimes, it's found in being fully present for the life already in front of you.

For the mother in the thick of it, the woman wondering where she went along the way, or anyone learning to hold gratitude and ambition at the same time, Peace & Babies is a reminder that while we're busy raising our children, they may be quietly raising us, too.