on time {(in)couragement for working moms}

by | Apr 13, 2013 | lifeblog

I’m not a typical working mom. My job is part-time, and I do it from home, only going into the office one morning a week. This arrangement has allowed me to be at home with my Boy, belong to two during-the-day moms groups, and save a bundle by not using much...

on Easter reflecting

by | Mar 30, 2013 | lifeblog

Growing up, my mother was (and still is) a church choir director. She had to be at church for all the services, including the sunrise service, so the Easter bunny would leave our baskets in the car =) It’s Easter weekend. Though there you can still measure the...

on why I don’t have working moms guilt

by | Mar 1, 2013 | lifeblog

This week I asked women in our (in)couraging Working New Moms group to share pictures of their work spaces. The resulting pictures made me think that these women were proud of their spaces. Had anyone told them that it’s ok to feel that pride? Because it is. By...

On Being Intentional in Community

by | Nov 15, 2012 | lifeblog

Let’s talk. After Sam was born, I had a hard time. The ridiculous math of extreme sleep deprivation + unhealed body = a new mama coming apart at the seams. I was trying to figure out how to be a mom, wrapping my brain around this new precious gorgeous baby that...

on the dirty word that rusts out my heart

by | Nov 5, 2012 | lifeblog

Tonight, while I was right next to him, my Boy fell against the toilet (out of the mouths of moms, right?!) He was crying, and I kept telling him that he was fine, but later I saw that his eyelid was red and puffy =( He must’ve bumped it when he fell, but I...

on self care

by | Oct 18, 2012 | lifeblog

Sometimes I think I have myself convinced that the absence of tears is strength. That answering ‘fine’ is a good thing. That if I don’t love fully, deeply, there will be less of myself to hurt. What a crock.———-The other day I wrote...

on being a working mom

by | Oct 9, 2012 | lifeblog

I haven’t been a working mom for very long – just shy of 7 months now. I am the social networking and webinar manager for a non-profit ministry resource company, and work 20ish hours/week mostly from home. There are a lot of things going on there: social...

on community: (in)couraging Working New Moms

by | Oct 2, 2012 | lifeblog

An event, planned by a stranger whose heart I know, prompted a text from a new friend. We’d host together. She invited her friends. One of them thought she may know me – an email sent confirmed it. I had been her counselor at camp a hundred years ago. That...

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