It’s been three whole months. That doesn’t sound like much. Three months is only a trimester…the length of summer…how long I wait for a movie to arrive at Redbox. But for a lonely person, three months is overwhelming. Our cross-country move from my beloved Sweet Home Alabama to the rough and tough Lone Star State triggered […] Read more…
Sometimes, life is simple. And somewhat easy. Like when your kids are small and homebound. Before life includes carpool and afternoon practices. When most of your time is spent sitting on the floor with a little one and your day is planned around afternoon naps. You may be tired because sleep is a tad erratic, but life […] Read more…
Publix has been really good to me… …they have these car buggies that are like fun little kid prisons that I can push around. If I put my kids on one of those backpack leashes I get major disapproval from people who have never had children…but if I strap them all into a jail-on-wheels everyone thinks it’s cute. […] Read more…
As my children are entering into the ability to understand the depth of the wonder of Christmas, I am filled with the desire to present them with the truth: that, yes, we eagerly await the joy the gifts will bring on Christmas morning, but we also anticipate the forever joy that the birth of our Savior […] Read more…
Motherhood, especially the “little years,” very very very very often feels like a complex and exhausting game of give-and-take. For one thing to succeed, another thing must be forsaken…(or so it seems.) …The need for your family to have clean clothes trumps the desire to sit down and read a good book. …The time spent running errands replaces the time previously […] Read more…
Have you ever walked into a restaurant, let’s say a pizza buffet, only to make a u-turn and head right back out the door again? I have. It was the smell. That pungent, there’s-no-way-that’s-really-pizza smell…it drove me right out. I didn’t even look at the pizza. I didn’t have to. The smell was indicator enough […] Read more…
As my children are entering into the ability to understand the depth of Christmas, I am filled with the desire to present them with the truth: that, yes, we eagerly await the joy the gifts will bring on Christmas morning, but we also anticipate the forever joy that the birth of our Savior brings. Toys, […] Read more…
I see you. You see me. We are both clearly exhausted…just trying to make it through another day of keeping our kids and ourselves on the straight and narrow. A few words are exchanged. “So how is homeschooling going?” “It’s so great! Well, it’s really hard. I don’t know what I’m doing. I get angry […] Read more…
There’s a lot of daydreaming that mommas do. …What if I started exercising again?? …What if my children learned another language?? …What if we had this awesome, totally inspiring family motto that I hand-stitched and hung above our front door?? I fill a good bit of my “free time” (ha!) with daydreams…I think about them […] Read more…
“For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” I Samuel 16:7 Have you ever been tricked by something that looked really nice…and it wasn’t? …a cute little puppy that practically bit your hand off? …a piece of chocolate that turned out to […] Read more…