Fracture: an update on our unexpectedly-upended family
I’m out of town and broke my leg in 3 places. Our family is fractured, splintered, and stretched further than ever before. This is SO HARD on all of us.
illness
Why moms fail at new years resolutions (10 tips for January survival)
Are you a young momma who has set some goals or new years resolutions for the new year? I know I am. There’s just something about the beginning of January that beckons me to change, to improve, to make this year better than the last. But then, what happens? Um…January happens. This may be my favorite … [Read more…]
Dear January: A Love/Hate Letter to The Longest Month of the Year
A Love/Hate Letter to The-Longest-Month-of-the-Year
When it can’t be made “all better”
The hurts and pains upon our hearts make us cry and whimper and we just want it to be all better. But healing takes time.
When I’m not enough to be a good mother: where God’s grace begins
I think that God created motherhood to show me how sinful and inadequate I am at being a good mother…and thus how much I desperately need Him and His grace. Because there is nothing more humbling than being a mother who feels like she’s not enough. Except for being a mother of a sick child. … [Read more…]
In which I can’t even read a four letter word…or is it five? {five minute friday}
Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s topic was “Dive.” Start. Drive Drive Ezra to the doctor at 10am. 5:15 am. He woke up crying and … [Read more…]
April Showers
Let me be honest, I have had a pretty difficult month…well, two months actually. It began with Ezra not sleeping…for about six weeks straight he woke every two hours or sometimes even less throughout each night, and only took 15-20 minute naps during the day.