Mondays happen to all of us once a week. Profound, huh? Here’s another deep thought. Some Mondays are great, and others are Monday-type Mondays. Around here, today was a Monday-type Monday. You know the kind. Everyone had to get up far earlier than they wanted to. All of those little things that seemed attainable when […]
A Birthday Letter to my Daughter
Dear Daughter, Will you ever know the gift you’ve given me this past year? Twenty short days into 2013, you pushed your way into this world. Those first weeks that followed are a fuzzy yet strong memory within me even still. You were delicate and beautiful, intoxicating me with your charm as I began the […]
Forgetting the Crazy, Remembering the Joy
When I think of words to describe this season of my life, crazy is definitely one of them. Some days are so crazy, in fact, that I can’t for the life of me remember what made them that way when I try to recall it the next day. I won’t remember that today I got […]
8 Thoughts from this Week
I’m not feeling a creative vibe tonight, but I really want to write anyway, so here are some thoughts in a nice, neat list…or something like that. 1. Naps are a gift, not a right. Somewhere along the way, moms have gotten it in their heads that we are entitled to a couple of hours […]
What I’ve Been Reading
While I’m busy not writing so much right now, I’ve been catching up with a long-lost love of mine – reading. I don’t know exactly what caused it, but I went through a several years’ long funk in the book reading department. This year, I was determined to change that since I knew I’d have […]
Letters to my Daughter: Let’s Talk About Beauty
To my sweet baby girl, I tell you every day that you are God’s precious gift to me, but I wish with all of my being there were some way that I could convince you of how deeply I mean it. You have no idea how much He’s brought me through to get to this […]
Come Fill These Shoes Please
It’s coming. The end and the beginning. Life as we have grown accustomed to it is about to change. The unknown will become reality. Early mornings will become a way of life, and free hands will be full. As the week 38 mark of this pregnancy came and went yesterday, my awareness that it is […]
A Letter to my Babies About Tragedy
My Sweet Children, Today was a tragic day in the history of this country. As I took in the news, I felt a baby moving in my womb, trying to get comfortable with only 6 weeks or so left before breathing her first breath in this sinful world. When my eyes moved from the TV, […]
Choosing to do it Anyway
As I embark on the fourth Christmas season as a mother, I can see progress. Of course in my son, but also in me. In the beginning, I believed I should be the mom whose kid did every creative project known to man, so I’d have my one year old attempting to make hand print […]
Hope with a Generation
Moms worry. We question why those sweet children of ours struggle with certain milestones. Did that cough coronate the reign of an illness in their sweet little bodies? Are we teaching them enough and in the most effective way? How about the nutrients they miss out on when they refuse to eat certain healthy foods? […]