Wait. Remain. Rest.
Why has it taken me so long to post in the new year? I could blame it on all the transition around me, a post for another time, but the truth is I’ve simply been a bit stuck. Kind of in a funk. 2016 felt like …
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Warning: High Maintenance Areas
I’m not high maintenance. Pff. Absolutely not. Yes, I’ve been buying more clothes from for-real stores and from fair trade/wages organizations like Imagine Goods and Amani Ya Juu, but I’m still a thrift shop girl at heart. My long hair means I don’t have a “salon” so much …
Call it Creativity?
It was Tuesday morning, circa 8:50am: homeschool co-op day was upon us, where I’ve been entrusted with an hour of activities and playtime for the boisterous toddler set. Except I had no activity planned. My fully-adult baby brother and sister came to visit the night …
Suffering: The Weight of Hope and Praise
Lately I’ve been wrestling with a body not yet thirty years old that may never work the way most people’s do. My diabetic levels remain high, the numbers are all wrong, and I look back and has it really been this way for months on …
You Homeschool Too
Today I started my second year of homeschooling my kids. I’m not a saint- really homeschooling is just trading some problems for others. When my daughter went to public kindergarten, mornings were essentially a drill to see how late we could get up without missing the bus. …
Being the Oreo Cream
Are you a “middle” person? That’s me. I started my career as a neutral middle person during recess at my cozy Massachusetts elementary school. I don’t feel like recess was sufficiently long for third grade drama to incubate and hatch into full-blown silence treatment- but what …
A Nightlight For the Dark
This past week I had a dark day. Not just a day where you lose your car keys and burn the toast. It was a day that brought me to my knees. You know? I felt defeated and depressed in every way; mentally I was …
Beauty in the Season
We were running late. I should know by now that running late to anywhere with three kids spells trouble. We were halfway to our destination when I heard a pitiful whine from my six year old daughter in the back seat: “We forgot my tambourine! …
Content in Discontent?
I may not know every person who will read this, but I can bet that we all have something in common: We like for people to agree with us. We like positive comments and words of affirmation, facebook “likes”, a thumbs up, or anyone who …
But I’d Rather…
Raising kids in this world is difficult, and the global events of the last month alone are enough to add fear to any mother’s heart. Combine with that fear the pressure to meet our current culture’s thoughts on what it means for a child to …