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Losses, Gains, and a Good Crisis
Remember that time when you were excited to send your first child to Kindergarten? To take a picture of your chubby-cheeked five-year old standing with a backpack hanging past his knee caps, grinning like the Cheshire cat and standing at your front door? When you...
Reimagining 2020
It has become pretty clear this year is unique. Different. I would even go so far as to say, special. Yes, I think Coronavirus and 2020 are two of those “painful gifts” we hear people, who’ve battled cancer and life-altering situations, talk about with a grace that’s...
That Time We Bought an RV a Month Before a Pandemic Broke Out and the World Shut Down
RV. Pandemic. It’s funny. Hindsight is 20/20, right? There were lots of reasons for it, but my husband and I were really intentional in planning for this year. Just the sound of it seemed big, didn’t it? 2020. Like some kind of themed television show, this year was...
The Beauty of Christmas
The kids decorated our tree this year. The whole thing. They strung the lights (and missed an entire bottom section). Actually, they put three different strands of lights on our tree, one white, two colored. Once the lights were up, I pulled the lid off the grey...
A Word About Calling
Here I am. My name is my blog. And there is a picture of my face all smiling and sweet, looking like life is perfect and I have all the answers. Who am I? Let me just get this off my chest, friends, because I have struggled, struggled, struggled through this. Why am I...
Of Risk and Reward: A Year of Life on the Ranch
Last summer, we packed up our three-bedroom suburban life and trucked it out 40 minutes to a sprawling five-bedroom ranch. The latest risk in a string of many we have taken over our thirteen married years. I'm not sure when the dream began, but my husband and I have...
Waiting on the Wind
You guys!! By God's great grace, something I wrote was posted with (in)courage today! I am so grateful for this opportunity to share what God has shared with me. You can click on the link below to read more. Thank you friends for all your encouragement to me along the...
I’d Rather Be Real
I sent this picture out as our Christmas card last year. My husband thought I was crazy. He still thinks I am. We've certainly taken better family pictures, so why I chose this one he didn't understand. But this is my family. This is our house. And...
I’m Gonna Miss This
Last week, I took the pictures off my walls and I cried. The red-eyed ugly cry. I took the curtains down that my neighbor, Judy, hemmed for me and I cried some more. I sat on the bench behind home plate and watched one of the last neighborhood baseball games in our...
The Sanctity of Summer
I call it “distracted mothering” and I’m really good at it. Too good. It might be a text, or an e-mail, another child, or a floor that needs sweeping. It might be laundry or lunches or washing my hands. It could be a conversation I’m trying to have with a friend or a...
