A week ago we sat on the counselor’s couch. I was perturbed because even after declaring to my husband, “We’re here for you,” somehow the conversation kept coming around to me and my issues with perfectionism. *sigh* I say, “I just don’t know why God made me this way.” I’ve made significant strides in combating … [Read more…]
Alternately titled The one where I perform surgery on a vacuum cleaner or Aprille and her no-good, terrible, very-bad, horrible, awful idea or Never let your 4-year-old play with packing peanuts no matter how fun it seems. (You pick.) So, first of all, pregnancy is doing very very weird things to me. Like aliens-are-taking-over-my-body weird. Whatever hormones that are … [Read more…]
In this post, I’d like to share some of the ways I have already begun to create whitespace in our home and with our family.
I hope that someday, he will forgive me for all the times I said, “No, not now, Mommy is working…” and “Ezra, go play” and “Leave Mommy alone”