February 17th , 2010 → 5:04 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
As you may already know, I struggled pretty much all throughout high school with an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa. Many people, who are similarly fighting their own battle, ask me what I did to “get over it.” I find it somewhat hard to narrow it down to a systematic way of what helped me [...]
Category : Life Lessons / Nutrition / Our Journeys / Supplementing
February 17th , 2010 → 5:03 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
No two people’s process is the same, nor is their a system to follow that will work for everyone. This is not a “one-size-fits-all” type post (read here to see further explanation), but rather a peek into my personal experience and what I learned. I hope this helps point someone in the right direction and [...]
Category : Life Lessons / Nutrition / Our Journeys / Supplementing
January 21st , 2010 → 9:33 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
Tonight was a scary night for us. Our oldest, Micaiah (7), misunderstood me when I told her she could go down the street and play with one of our neighbor friends. I was about 30 seconds behind her, as I was grabbing my coat, and I couldn’t find her when I walked out the door. [...]
Category : Our Journeys / Our Kids / Parenting
December 21st , 2009 → 2:46 am @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
In order to tell my son’s story, I almost have to tell my own first. Hosea’s life came as a direct result of me receiving God’s Son. Everything his short life represents is a powerful testimony of God’s grace—something that I missed early on in my life. I’m not sure how I missed it exactly, [...]
Category : Child Loss / Our Journeys
December 14th , 2009 → 9:02 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
Micaiah sang a small solo part of Away in a Manger at church on Sunday. She is really funny! I love watching her wiggle and shake, scratch her leg, wink, and all other manner of things during the song. All the kids were adorable. Sorry about the video shaking so much…we were fighting heads in [...]
Category : Our Journeys / Our Kids
December 7th , 2009 → 12:37 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
There is no greater sound than hearing your children say “I love you” in there tiny little voice with sounds that only you as the parent can interpret! I love how we as parents hear our kids stumble over words as they are developing and half the time the rest of the world can’t understand [...]
Category : Our Kids
November 25th , 2009 → 10:35 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
Today was the day of “firsts.” We got our first pet today and Micaiah got her ears pierced! I was really amazed at how brave she was. She looked pretty wide-eyed but she never flinched or cried! I was so proud of her! And her earrings look so cute!
Micaiah didn’t cry, so Eden had to [...]
Category : Our Kids
November 25th , 2009 → 9:28 am @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
Happy 7th Birthday Micaiah! You are so big!
She started off the morning with love notes down the hallway to the breakfast table, where her birthday cereal was waiting for her. She picked it out last night from Kroger.
Then it was time for the big surprise! Micaiah has asked us every day for 2 years [...]
Category : Our Kids
November 20th , 2009 → 8:13 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
Eden’s favorite thing to play with is Groovy Girls. All the grandparents contributed to her collection and she was thrilled! She decided to turn a plain old box into a Groovy Girl Mansion! We started with pink, of course, and then added the details! This was a fun afternoon project. Boxes are so much fun [...]
Category : Our Kids
November 20th , 2009 → 7:27 pm @ Nathan & Jenni Oates
We had so much fun tonight with all of our friends playing silly games and celebrating our two daughters birthdays.
Eden wanted another shot at it…
Then we played The Blob!
Then we roasted marshmallows over the grill and made smores instead of the conventional birthday cake! Eden’s real birthday is Nov. 6, Nathan’s is Nov. 18, and [...]
Category : Our Kids
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