I’m an idiot. Or at least I’m a glutton for punishment, because I hatched up the idea to spend our very last days of summer vacation driving down south to visit my family in a whirlwind trip- only to arrive home with 36 hours before …
Marriage has its awkward moments, right? Recently my husband and I launched into a playful airing of mild grievances. I don’t know what possessed us to start this, as even playful arguing often goes awry. And, as was inevitable, we soon struck upon a …
The past few days I’ve been bombarded with fear, brokenness, and sadness. Personally, I’ve been struggling with diabetic issues- and at some points in the past few days all I could think about was how afraid I was, and how completely out of control I …
Not the best day. It may have started with the rain messing up my plans to take my kids to 6 flags…but I suspect it was all brewing long before then. I think somehow my sudden lack of plan for the day snowballed with the …
I’m introspective and questioning. Ah, a gigantic understatement if you ask my husband, who is constantly fielding deep theological and tangled thoughts right as we should be falling asleep. But he’s out for the evening being awesome and helping with lights for a …
We have two biological children and are in the early stages of adopting child #3. At this point I can’t imagine life without our recent addition, but that doesn’t mean I’ve mastered parenting three kids. Sometimes I think it would be harder to have just …
…a work in progress. Please feel free to add your own! converruption [kon-vuh-ruhp-shuh n] (n.): A verbal exchange between two or more parents that feels choppy, incomplete, or overly superficial due to frequent distractions/interruptions by childrencrankappy [krangk-app-ee] (adj): Used to describe a child’s mood when it alternates rapidly between cranky …
Easter morning, 8:00am: I was still lying down, savoring a bed to myself, trying to catch up on missed sleep from previous nights. One of the first things that occurred to me as I rolled out of bed was that I forgot about our church’s …
I had one thought this week that makes so much sense to ponder aloud on Good Friday- and I have a few spare minutes now so here goes!Recently Romans 5:7-8 (particularly 8) played through my mind: “7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, …
Somewhere along the line I suppose most of us resign ourselves to the fact that we will never be famous and plastered on magazine covers. Which of course, we’ll admit, is not actually a bad thing. Still- I sort of secretly want to be known …