by Hannah Jessen Conway | Aug 30, 2024 | faith, hearing loss, mama-ing
This past January, I sent out a New Year’s card because a Christmas card just didn’t come together in time. My sister got married in early December, and then our second son Shepherd was born on December 17––so we had just a few things on our plate. After...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Aug 22, 2024 | mama-ing
Recently I had a dream about two teenager boys at the beach (stay with me, I know that was a weird intro). We were at the Outer Banks where my family goes each year watching these two boys flirting with a group of girls walking by. I was laughing and pointed them out...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | May 13, 2024 | hearing loss, mama-ing
This Mother’s Day feels different because I am not the same mom I was last year. On December 17, our second son Shepherd was born. We named him Shepherd because we loved the shepherds’ story in the Bible and how they were the first to hear of Jesus’s birth. On...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | May 13, 2023 | mama-ing
“It’s definitely a boy!” These are the words the ultrasound technician confidently said as my husband and I looked at each other, eyes wide. I was 19 weeks pregnant with our first child and had been counting down the days until our anatomy scan. Of course, I wanted...
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Nov 12, 2022 | mama-ing
“It goes so fast.” I can’t count the number of times someone has said this to me – or that I’ve said it to myself. And while it’s just one of those things people say to you when you’re a new parent, I’ve noticed it triggers something inside of me each time....
by Hannah Jessen Conway | Jul 27, 2022 | mama-ing
“This is such a unique season.” The number of times I’ve said this since having a baby is nauseating. And while it’s true, just acknowledging the “uniqueness” of any given season doesn’t stop me from missing previous ones or imagining future ones. While we were...
