It's been almost 7 years since I entered into the black hole baby gear era! Despite having 3 kids in 3 years, I was shocked by how much baby items and gear had changed over that span. I have to l...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2020/03/my-favorite-baby-items-as-4th-time-mama.html
It feels almost foreign to be typing into the Blogger interface. I hadn't planned on taking an almost permanent hiatus from blogging but life has gotten full in a way that I could have never expe...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2020/02/harts-fostering-journey.html
It’s been almost three years since we brought our son Gideon home through adoption and there are moments that still take my breath away. For example, when I think of his beautiful first mom and...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2019/08/creating-adoption-photo-book-for-your.html
Last year when our 3rd kiddo turned one, my husband and I felt like we finally had our heads above water. Having 3 kids in 3 years really knocked us down and one thing that really struggled was d...
Here we are, the last day of February which means 2019 is in full force! If your 2019 New Year's Resolution had anything to do with organizing your pictures from last year (or maybe the last 10 y...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2019/02/how-to-organize-family-photo-album-or.html
It's December 1st and you know what that means... our family Christmas cards signed, sealed, and on their way to be delivered to family and friends all over the US. If you know me personally, yo...
You guys. I am writing this post on my couch, fire in the fireplace, Christmas tree lit and twinkling, and wrapped up in a blanket with my face on it. Yep, and I am 0% ashamed. We took our family...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/11/a-blanket-with-my-face-on-it.html
As I stuffed our cloth diapers the other night, I was thinking to myself, 'I have been cloth diapering non stop for 5 years!'. And 18 of those months were with two babies in cloth diapers. That i...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/10/cloth-diapering-5-years-in.html
Ever since Ford was born 5 years ago (what?!), I've been printing photos on photo canvases with the vision of having an entire wall in our home with canvases of our family as it grow...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/09/my-canvas-picture-wall.html
Gideon Aaron Hart Born 11/7/2016 Placed with us 11/15/2016 Adoption Finalized 5/23/2017 A few times a month I receive messages through Instagram or email asking about our adoption. I...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/04/15-years-post-adoption-faq.html
Tomorrow our Lucy Joy turns three! Despite being smack dab in the middle of two brothers, she is all girl. Unicorns, ponies, pink, and glitter... that is our girl. We don't do huge birthdays in ...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/04/lucys-3-year-old-birthday-list.html
Jon and I traveled to Havana, Cuba last week and still can't believe how beautiful it was! We keep saying to each other that it is hard to explain to someone who hasn't been there. The archi...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/04/half-of-my-heart-is-in-havana.html
Phew. Now that I've managed to get some sleep and catch up on laundry, I can consolidate all of my thoughts after tackling Disney world with 5 kids, 5 and under. The whole time we were there...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/02/disney-world-tips-traveling-with-kids-5.html
The year Ford was born I started making family yearbooks as a way to chronicle the happenings of our year. I know you mamas can relate with the mountains of photos we have (okay not physical moun...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2018/01/our-2017-family-yearbook.html
I would like to announce that while it took every ounce of energy and self control in me, we did not put up any Christmas decorations or lights until 2 pm on Thanksgiving Day! Seeing beautifully ...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2017/11/our-christmas-card-2017.html
How on earth is my third baby ONE?! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was frantically trying to figure out this motherhood thing with Ford (and years later, not sure if I have figured it o...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2017/11/scootin-and-stylin-in-evenflo-sibby.html
•O N E• One year ago this evening, we were mourning the loss of the daughter we thought we would be bringing into our family and God was already at work, bringing Gideon Aaron into this worl...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2017/11/o-n-e-one-year-ago-this-evening-we-were.html
James 1:27 says "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Ja...
Basically all of my favorite things rolled into an amazing and delicious treat! You have got to make these! I pretty much always have all of the ingredients on hand and it's easy to whip up in 1...
http://www.ruthiehart.com/2015/04/peanut-butter-banana-chocolate-chip.html
Well here we are, closer to G Man's first birthday than when he was born... wow! Summer is in full swing, something I longed for this past winter when we were all home sick. Life has been flying ...
Our precious Gideon Aaron turned 6 months old on May 7th! How on earth has a half a year already passed by? He is happy, healthy, and the perfect fit into our family. This weekend I get to celeb...
Lucy girl turned TWO years old last week and it still doesn't feel real! I snapped some pictures of her in her Pottery Barn Kids chair (I took her monthly pictures as a baby in it), I want to do...
Lucy Joy is TWO today! I can't believe two years have passed since I laid eyes on my beautiful daughter. Year 2 has been full of change for her but she is a loving big sister, a silly little sis...
Yep you read that right, Team Hart is relocating to another part of Austin! The possibility of moving is something we have been praying about for 9 months now and we are so excited to see what th...
I've never been so happy to see 5 months come... but never so tired. This month has been quite exhausting, but also lots of fun. The day after he turned 4 months old, 4 month sleep regression s...