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So, this is happening - Coming 2023. Here’s a little piece of the joy & support our little pup will have as he or she grows. Our legacy takes a village. This is ours 🤍 by @dicaduva

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4 years ago

We spent months preparing for our beautiful home birth

Our parent friends would tell us they’d never seen people more prepared

Even before having a child, we became the biggest advocates for home births

We prayed intently and listened to God’s leading - we knew it was the right decision.

Everything about it was perfect -

we sang
we worshipped
we laughed
we ate
we cried
we prayed

But we labored for about 36 hours before we knew it was time for help.

Our baby girl’s head was tilted at an angle & not allowing her passage through the birth canal.

At this point, contractions and laboring were not normal anymore - the pain became unbearable as her head was pinching my cervix with every excruciating contraction

It was frustrating.

It was heartbreaking.

We did EVERYTHING right.

And still things didn’t go as planned

It was 4:45am Tuesday morning when we decided to head to the hospital

There we labored for 9 more hours before we had to do an emergency C-section

Our baby girl’s heartbeat had been dropping with every contraction and it was time

This was not at all what we imagined

Life is funny that way

But we did what we only know to do when life is beyond our grasp - we prayed and we trusted.

We want Job-like faith without the Job-like testing

And this was no different.

We made a decision to worship in the midst of our pain

To pray in the midst of our worry

To have faith amidst our doubt

To say ‘blessed be the name of the Lord, who gives and who takes away’ - just as Job did.

Just as every great man and woman of faith have said since the beginning of time when faced with a fallen and broken world like this one

We did this not because we got our way

We did it because God is worth my trust and celebration even when life doesn’t go my way

He is worthy not because I get what I want -

He is worth that because He is good

And at 14:50 on Tuesday we welcomed our daughter into the world

Our home birth story was beautiful - our hospital story was not.

It was graphic, and it was messy

Much like the rest of life

Complicated and difficult at times, but oh so beautiful in the end

In the end it’s always worth it

And she was no different. by @dicaduva

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4 years ago

What ‘busy being a momma and wifey’ looks like for me these days 🧡 by @dicaduva

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6 days ago

Mafia Night 📽️ #mafia by @dicaduva

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8 months ago

They love us 😂

Also, there’s no ‘return to sender’ so they’re stuck with us forever

#christmas #christmasjoy #christmasdecorations #christmasgarland #garland #merrychristmas #jolly #december #husbands by @dicaduva

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a year ago

This last week, though tempted in some odd form of curiosity to watch the close-up video of Charlie Kirk be assassinated, I remembered I am responsible for two little girls who rely on me for emotional comfort, for support, for a regulated nervous system; as theirs rises and falls with mine, their breath mirroring my own, my calm is their calm.

I grew up being ‘hard’.

I often thought I had to be the tough one, to bear the burdens of life so that others wouldn’t have to. But tonight, as I sit in the safety of my home, I don’t have to be hard because I can rest in the hardness of my husband. He is hard so I can be soft. He is strong so I can be weak.

People often think the Bible is full of contradictions without realizing the depths of its wisdom. When Paul refers to women ‘as the weaker vessel’ he is not giving women an inferior designation. He eloquently, breathed by God, describes the reality that men and women —created EQUAL— are not the same.

Tonight, I rest under my husband’s covering. Men like him, men like Charlie, do hard work so that women in the fullness of their God-given strength can rest in their femininity.

Months ago as children were being dragged through the streets of war, I asked my husband if he watched the videos. He is not a desensitized man — if you know him you know he feels deeply, and is moved quickly. So it surprised me when he said yes. When I asked him why, he replied ‘Someone has to. I have to. If I am to fight evil, I have to know the evil I’m facing.’ He watches so that he can pray, so that he can fight, so that he can repay evil with good.

But good isn’t passive. It is fierce. It is detrimental to the dark. Good is light that drives out darkness. It sheathes its sword until, when absolutely necessary, it cleaves its head, removing evil at the root, and leaving in its wake the seed of hope planted.

And that? No sick, twisted, evil man can ever take away. Charlie Kirk was taken from this world by evil, but his death is only the beginning of his life and legacy.

Because our foundation is built on the eternal rock that is Christ 🤍 by @dicaduva

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a year ago

SOS ⚡️

#raisingbabies #toddlers #parents #parenting #ipadkids #noipads #behavior #teaching #wholesome #girldad by @dicaduva

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2 years ago

Prep our birth space with us 🫶🏼🤍

When I tell you God showed up. . I mean, it was miraculous.

#pregnancy #birth #homebirth #birthing #birthspace #miracle #waterbirth # by @dicaduva

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2 years ago

PLOT TWIST

Baby came a week early!

Allicent Moon
born 1/10/2025 at 11:14 am

Can’t wait to share our birth story with you all 🌙🩷🎀 by @dicaduva

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2 years ago

10 Days.

Pray for us, saints.

I’m more nervous about this birth than our last, since it didn’t go according to our plan.

Still, I trust the Lord.

Yet doubt, fear, and anxiety try to creep in where the prince of Peace has conquered.

Pray for us as we prepare our home.

As we ready our hearts for the labor that will come.

Pray for faith to triumph.

Pray for the kingdom to be blessed through our story 🤍

We love you guys

#pregnancy #birth #naturephotography #maternity #babies #family #nature #love #faith #jesus by @dicaduva

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2 years ago

T-minus 15 days

3 years ago (New Years 2021) I had no idea my world would look so different today.

Doug’s & my sanctification has greatly come in the form of marriage.

In this picture we had JUST begun building toward a better marriage after 2 years of a really tough season.

It didn’t always make sense.

I didn’t always believe we would make it through tbr.

But one thing we ALWAYS counted on, was God.

We returned to Him, time and time again.

Broken.

Often hurting.

Angry.

The one thing we had in common was we never stopped coming back. To Him.

Looking back now it feels like we’d never see the other side.

And life can often feel that way when we’re in the depth of heartache. Or difficulty. Or waiting.

‘It will never end’

But it will.

It always does.

And whether that ends with victory or defeat depends largely on what you cling on to when it feels like you’re drowning - on WHO you cling on to.

And friends, there’s only One who can bear the weight of your season, and that’s Jesus.

So this year, in the moments when we feel like we’re drowning, I hope we all cling on to the right life line to see us through to the other side 🤍🌻

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not consume you.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭43‬:‭2‬ by @dicaduva

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2 years ago

26 Days 🙃

Life before kids was. . . Cool.

Sorry for the pun.

Now it’s warmer.

And it’s better.

And it’s so much more fun.

Last pic is a representation of how my first time snowboarding really went.

And also how motherhood sometimes feels 😛

But you keep pressing on and get better at it.

We’re so excited to meet you baby girl.

Mom & Dad will never stop being cool for you ❄️

#snow #snowboarding #cold #colorado #skilift #slopes #snowfall by @dicaduva

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2 years ago