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 …
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 …
I was driving to get coffee a few weeks ago while my youngest slept in the car and my three year old- well, she was content anyway. I won’t lie, these are the carefully orchestrated mommy moments that I dream of. (I promise I wasn’t …
I am smaller than I think I am. I have always prided myself in being able to do more than people may expect. Sometimes it has to do with wanting to be seen as a strong woman- so no, thank you, I can move the …
I have an amazing husband. This past week he watched the kids for me every night so I could be in my first musical. It ended up being a stretch for me- although not in a theatrically challenging way. It was one of those those …
I have decided that I don’t act very much like a grownup. I have a husband, a house, and kids of my own now, but I do not always feel very mature. I sort of thought as I grew up that the over-reactions and emotional …