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A few months ago I tried to speak with a friend about something troubling my heart. I felt a wedge growing between us and didn’t want it to be there. Maybe it was on my end, maybe it was on hers. Maybe it was both. Finding out seemed to be the most loving thing I…
Kate turned 11 in June…and I never shared the photos!!! Life got busy and I never came back around to it. But better late than never I suppose…especially since this party was so girly and cute! We love to wake the kids up with breakfast in bed on their birthdays. The other kids help to…
Diaper Bag: LILY JADE || Brown Puff Accessory: AMAZON The past two weeks have been all about school! I turned off social media and laid low on the blog as I have entered into full time teacher mode!!! Matt has continued to travel for these job interviews while the kids and I have been trudging…
My recent post about hardness of heart in marriage and the difficult work of marriage has raised a lot of questions on the issue of forgiveness. What exactly is forgiveness? I spent a number of years defining “forgiveness” incorrectly, and it had some fierce ramifications on relationships in my life. I once thought forgiveness was:…
Last night, just after folding the last few loads of laundry and putting the last kiddo to bed, I set my phone down to plug it in and noticed I had received an email. My blog alerts me each time I receive a comment and, although it was late at night and I shouldn’t have…
To the mamas: Mother’s Day. It’s just around the corner. Mother’s Day is a good day. A day of honor for women everywhere who are in the trenches of raising little humans. For me, in recent years Mother’s Day has become a day of pretty dresses, smiles, homemade kid gifts, and take out so I…