Articles & Posts
Whether here in these posts, over on Facebook and Instagram, or in one of my books, I share about the extraordinary ordinary found in being a wife, mom, and woman. I’d love to share a cup of coffee over a picket fence in our backyard, so that’s how I write. Join me?
The Choice We Need to Make This Week
I've been doing quite a bit of speaking this season, to church groups and moms groups and groups of parents. As I've prepared the talks for each gathering, I've realized that I am a perfectionist. You could say I’m a perfectionist in recovery, but yeah, I totally tend...
On Knowing What the Trees Know
It’s cooling down here in Minnesota, snow forecasted this weekend even though we topped at 80 degrees last week. The sticky, long, dog days of summer dredged deep into to September, and now in October the nights and early mornings bring a chill. And the trees . . ....
Hey, Cool Mom at Target:
Hey, cool mom at Target, I saw you today, with your adorable little one in her bonnet. I'm partial to bonnets myself - nothing sweeter on a baby than a ruffly little bonnet! Anyways, I saw that sweetie pie bat her eyelashes at you and then totally. lose. her. stuff....
On Going Back to School
Three weeks ago, we started school. Like real school. Kindergarten. You guys remember praying for that little baby we so badly wanted six years ago? NOW HE IS IN REAL SCHOOL. With bells and a teacher and little desks and lunch in the cafeteria and gym class and the...
On Sacrificing Holy Moments for Hurried Ones (and how I’m done with doing that)
I've realized recently that I’ve been wearing stress like a badge of honor. I realized that whenever I walked into a room, I was huffing and puffing, rolling my eyes at the circus act that it took to bring three kids in to any place. Which yes, is a sweaty hustle-y...
This is Not Who You Are {what Moana taught me about who I am}
*spoiler alert ahead, in case you haven't seen Moana yet* I've been struggling lately, words unspoken weaving their way into anxiety and outbursts. Right now who I say I am - girl with blog - isn't all that true. It's more like 'girl with Facebook and Instagram. Girl...
Suit Up, Girls.
While not anywhere near the entanglement of modern day slavery, there is definitely a culture of enslavement right here in the free world. We are bound, all right. Maybe with proverbial chains, but nonetheless these shackles are our reality: Fear. Low self worth....
The Ministry of Presence
I haven’t watched a full broadcast of the 10 o’clock news in years. It seemed to me that each night, the news became darker, more saturated with gloom and despair and evil. And there came a point where I decided that I just wouldn’t watch any longer. I do read...
There is No Such Thing As Balance… But There is a Whole Lot of Grace.
There is a myth that many - if not most - of us have bought into, hook, line and sinker. We spend money on courses and ebooks, spend time listening to podcasts and video recordings, and spend energy frantically searching for proof that this myth can in fact be true in...
Mother’s Day for the ‘Other Mothers’
There are parents without carseats, diapers or pacifiers. Mothers who do not have bedtime rituals or middle of the night feedings. Mothers without hand-stamped necklaces or birthstone rings. Parents who no longer have children. These are the other mothers – the ones...
From the Archives: ‘On Lessons from Twelve Weeks with Three’
I wrote this post for (in)courage twelve weeks after the birth of my youngest, which put me at mothering three kids under age 5 (they were 4, 16 months, and brand new.) That was over a year ago now and they're clocking in at 5, 2 and solidly 1, but many of these...
State of Days & Heart
You know, like a State of the Union address? Consider this my State of Days and Heart. 🙂 It's been five weeks since the last words were spoken in this space. In that time, our family has: Celebrated my Sam's fifth birthday with a Green Eggs and Ham gathering of...
