I’ve been mulling over a great many things lately of the blogging kind. Nothing new, really, just trying to determine where to go from here. Before I come across as emo, please note that this post’s greatest purpose is to help me sort things out. I come up with my clearest answers by writing things […]
My Daily Dose of Exceptionally Average
It’s the peanut butter and jelly that I eat for lunch. It’s the holes that I punch in Tupperware so we can make a home for slugs we dig up under the guttering. It’s the Angry Bird battles I hear raging from his room. Did I mention that he’s decided every farm animal toy that […]
Those Little Things That Make Me Smile
My life is a blessed one. Deeply, richly, thoroughly blessed. I often enjoy sharing my heart about how God is working in my life to show me the beauty in the everyday with my sweet kids, husband, friends, and family. Today I plan to be anything but deep. Over the past week or two, I’ve […]
Simple Easter Activity for the Preschooler in Your Life
If you’ve read anything I’ve written in the past few weeks, you’ll probably notice that simple is my motto. The only way that I’ll accomplish anything is if I keep it short, sweet, and a little bit flawed. And I kind of like it that way. With it being Holy Week this week, I wanted […]
Pray for Caleb + A Guest Post
Several months ago, my friend Desiré at When You Rise asked me to share a guest post while she was in the hospital with her new miracle, Caleb. In case you missed it when I requested prayer for him a few months ago, I’ll catch you up. Caleb has a heart condition (actually several) that […]
How to Keep Your Sanity When You Have a Newborn
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Early to Rise Challenge that Crystal from Money Saving Mom has been writing about this month. It’s a great, wonderful, important thing to do if you are in the right season for it. I, however, am not anywhere near being able to participate. As I read through her posts about […]
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You know what I love about writing? It lends itself to learning. This year, I adopted the word Identify as my One Little Word of the year, and it’s been a word that has induced a great deal of soul searching. Sometimes that can prove to be haphazard since I started out the year ready […]
The Ring
The pain of removing my wedding band is forever seared in my memory. The reason was legitimate and unavoidable as my ring finger swelled and bled more by the second. The impending stitches, surgery, therapy, and recovery of my finger were dependent upon sliding the band over the exposed and severed tendons and flesh. As […]
Ordinary Ministry
Up again at 6:00 A.M. I’ve seen every hour of the day. It’s been a long night and my eyes are bleary, but this is the ordinary I’m learning to embrace. The nights are long, the days longer, in this season of having a wee one. I give up on sleeping by 7:00 and turn […]
Spoiler Alert
Photo Credit In my quest to identify this year, I’ve come to a conclusion in one area of my life I wasn’t really looking to. Sometimes I care too much about fitting in. Still. At 31 years old when I thought I was free of a lot of that adolescent mindset, I found it was […]