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Lessons from an eagle
Yesterday I saw a photo shared on Facebook of an eagle cam in Tennessee. Like so much of the rest of the country, Tennessee has gotten snow this week. The photo shows a bald eagle covered in snow sitting on …
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I’ll always be your hand to hold
I have mentioned before that my daughter will start kindergarten this fall. She turned 5 in October. I knew this day was coming. It isn’t a surprise. However, I still don’t know which school she’ll be going to. We have …
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A Mary or Martha kind of mother
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard sermons or Bible studies or read devotions on the Mary and Martha story in the Bible. Probably more than I can count. But as God is known to do, sometimes …
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The things I see when I look at my son
Today is a bittersweet day around here. It is my son’s birthday. And while I’m excited for him to be turning 2, I’m also a bit sad that the baby days are creeping farther and farther behind us.
There are …
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Never judge your motherhood by just one day
Nobody can be harder on a mama than herself. We have all these things we tell ourselves about how we’re awful at motherhood, how we keep messing up, how we’re not doing it right, how we are doing the very …
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Because you’re mine
“Mommy, come!” ”Mommy, come here!”
This is the little voice I hear calling to me most mornings and after nap times. Sometimes my son switches it to call for daddy. And sometimes he gets desperate and just sobs without even …
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Looking forward to 2015
We are a week into 2015. There is something about a new year that seems fresh and hopeful. Well, most new years. My husband and I welcomed 2014 in with a stomach bug. That didn’t seem very hopeful. But, this …
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The hope and joy of Christmas
To say these last few weeks have been crazy would be an understatement. We’ve dealt with a tummy virus in three of the four people in our family, colds, two run-ins with croup resulting in ER visits, a UTI, a …
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Small things for which to be thankful
I have learned many lessons about being thankful throughout my lifetime and I know I’ve got a lot left to go. I’ve learned to be thankful when I didn’t feel like it. I’ve learned to be thankful when times are …