Jan 20, 2018 | Childhood, Kids, Life Lessons, Motherhood, Parenting, Simple Things, Take Time, Time
The nights are long. When you’re finally home, hospital bracelet still on your wrist, and your sweet infant girl cries all night. When you try everything you know to soothe her and nothing seems to work, and eventually the tears of joy you expected become tears of...
Jan 2, 2018 | Childhood, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting, Simple Things, Time
I held you today and slow danced in that faded, yellow rocker back and forth, back and forth. Your head on my shoulder, your long legs curled up so you can still fit. You drifted to sleep, your steady breathing its own sweet lullaby—for my soul rather than yours....
Aug 22, 2017 | Childhood, God, Gratitude, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting, Thankfulness
Is anyone else ready to jump off this sweet Summer time bandwagon and move on towards Fall? Maybe it’s just me, but I’m tired. Tired of Summer. Tired of trying to come up with creative things for the kids to play. Tired of pretending to be a cat, a horse, or any...
Aug 18, 2017 | Childhood, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting
They placed you in my arms, and my world has never been the same. My heart has never felt the same. Things shifted somewhere deep inside, rearranging themselves, changing me. I peered into your small face and looked with wonder at your tiny hands. I touched them,...
Aug 15, 2017 | Anxiety, Childhood, Faith, God, Kids
My little girl is no longer afraid of the water! Three years of swimming lessons, and I feel like it has finally clicked. Until now, she has always loved the thought of swimming and has thoroughly enjoyed splashing around, but she never truly relaxed in the water. She...
Jul 31, 2017 | Childhood, Faith, God
You remember the story, don’t you? In this 1954 children’s classic, the big, black engine, shiny and powerful, puffed and chuffed leading the way. Then a mixture of box cars, oil cars, coal cars, and flat cars, all important with their substantial loads, trudged...