Goodness of God in Every Season

I ordered my very first Tiny Tags charm in 2020, just after my daughter Avery was born. I had spent my entire pregnancy working in the ER during COVID — walking into the unknown every shift, then coming home to isolation and shutdowns. When Avery was born, we weren’t allowed visitors. It was just the three of us for 48 sacred hours. Before I returned to work, I ordered her name so I could carry a piece of her with me into those long, heavy shifts. That Tiny Tags became my reminder that even in the hardest seasons, God was still writing something beautiful.

When Rhett was born in 2022, our world felt fragile again. Two days after bringing him home, he was admitted to the NICU for two weeks. I ordered his charm from the hospital, clinging to something steady while everything else felt uncertain. My necklace arrived just before he was hospitalized again with RSV. While we sat in that hospital room, he would hold onto the charms while he ate and as he drifted to sleep — the same necklace I had once clung to for comfort now comforting him.

Knox, our sweet surprise in 2024, didn’t even have a name for the first 24 hours of his life — but the moment we named him, I ordered his Tiny Tags from my hospital bed. And when Jack was born in December 2025, I placed his order the very day we got home so I would have it by Christmas. Each charm marks a chapter — newborn trenches, two under two, now four babies five and under — beautiful, exhausting, holy work.

At the center of it all is my father’s fingerprint — he passed before my children were born, but having him there, surrounded by their names, feels like heaven and earth meeting in one place. I have worn this necklace every single day since 2020. It has been with me through work, sleepless nights, workouts, hospital rooms, and quiet prayers whispered in the dark. All four of my babies reach for it when they’re tired, rubbing the charms as they fall asleep. It holds the names of the people who matter most to me, resting over my heart at all times. It is more than jewelry — it is comfort, faith, memory, and motherhood woven together. One of my most cherished possessions, and a daily reminder of the goodness of God in every season. 

- Maggie Anschutz