Living Where the Sacred and Secular Collide
Ever read something and think, “I LOVE that!!” Recently, I found a quote that fits in that category for me. The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit how difficult mothering is quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a sticky table with […]
Sweet momma, I saw you at church. You were chatting with all the other moms, discussing summer plans, and smiling at the stories of field day, dance recital, and graduation plans. You had a smile on your face but your eyes told a different story: worries about how the bills […]
Oh girl!! I wish you were here with me right now. I’m on my third cup of coffee and fighting a monster of a headache. This morning I managed {barely!} to keep my cool when my 13-going-on-25 year old daughter yelled at me because her hair wouldn’t go into a […]
“Don’t take it personally,” my wise friend told me. We’d been talking about the challenges of parenting teenagers and I was picking her brain since her girls are older than my own. “You’ve taught her well. Trust that,” said the mom I called when I was terrified I’d failed in […]
Last week my girl and I went to Missouri to spend Spring Break with my parents. We had a great time and I thoroughly enjoyed being unplugged for a few days. We came home Friday and spent Saturday at an Easter egg hunt with cousins. Sunday was a beautiful day […]
I live a very real, very ordinary life. There is always laundry to wash and meals to cook. Twenty-four hours never seems like quite enough. And some days it feels like all I’m doing is spinning my wheels. Everything I wash will have to be rewashed. Every meal I […]
