Category: faith
Updated on October 25, 2018
You are what you eat
“Can I eat this mom? It doesn’t say if it is gluten-free? Do you think it is ok?” My little guy stares at this package of snacks and tries to determine if he is going to trust it. …
Posted on October 18, 2018
What to do when you run out of storage space
My iPhone has not backed itself up in the last 96 days. It tells me this as I am trying to retrieve some super important piece of information from it. The home screen locks and this message appears. …
Updated on September 13, 2018
When Faith Falls
Excited to be sharing my words about faith, real life and our God who is bigger than all of the struggles we face. I’m over on the (in)courage blog today … Click Here to join me and read …
Updated on August 23, 2018
What is it you need to remember?
“Hey, Mom! You know it’s been almost 22 years since you went to school here, right?!” my oldest bellows his discovery across the breadth of the rambling porch at my college sorority house. There is a young sister …
Posted on August 9, 2018
What is it you want to grow?
He wanted to grow a cabbage. The biggest one ever, he declared as he carried his tiny plant home from the bus stop. He was waving this paper about prizes you could win if your cabbage grows the …
Updated on July 24, 2018
Do you know how to turn this thing around?
They waited all week for that kayak. The one we had promised to rent while on vacation. The one that, yes, they would be allowed to take out by themselves. Their dad said that, not me. I …
Updated on February 23, 2018
How to fight the bad guys
When my big boys were little boys, they played the craziest game. It was a game invented by their sweet friend in the house across the street, and it will probably live on in neighborhood lore for eternity. …
Updated on November 1, 2017
How to use a compass
Orienteering. I just had to Google that word to make sure I was using it correctly. It involves reading a map and using numbers, in the woods on unknown paths. Yeah. My brain is missing the neurons it …
Updated on April 27, 2017
Learning how to stop
We played this crazy game as kids. We would stand on the edge of the cul de sac with our toes in the grass, fling our arms wide with abandon, tip our faces skyward and spin around and around as fast as we could go. It’s been …
Posted on February 14, 2017
Where do you think you are going in those shoes?
Twenty- one years ago this week, I met the boy who would become my husband. On a blind date. While wearing tennis shoes. Yeah. I was a real fashionista. And as my sweet husband relishes in reminding me, it was …
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