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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I have a light over my kitchen sink. It’s a long fluorescent bulb and since we bought our house 10 years ago, we have never once changed the bulb. We have changed every other light bulb multiple times in a …
I told you a few months ago about how I’m doing my best to hang on to pieces of me where I can because I realized how fleeting and short my days of hard core motherhood are. Part of that …
Today (Sunday) had a rocky start, but it ended up transforming my worldview just when I needed it most. God likes to do that, I’ve found. And He doesn’t disappoint.
It was a bit like wrangling greased pigs to get …
Sometimes life is tedious. Sometimes motherhood is tedious. I can’t tell you how many times I wash the same dishes, fold the same clothes, put away the same toys, do the same bedtime rituals, prepare the same snacks and read …