A Lesson from the Football Coach
"Son, do not talk to your Mama like that!" As I was struggling to figure out my son's shoulder pads, I heard a voice come up from beside us. It…
"Son, do not talk to your Mama like that!" As I was struggling to figure out my son's shoulder pads, I heard a voice come up from beside us. It…
While you were sleeping, I took a sigh of relief that finally, my sweet wild child, finally you were resting. While you were sleeping, I had dishes piled and laundry…
There are days when everyone needs and wants to be held and there isn't a second I can find to myself. One of the children in the group is either…
Mom: "Good night...I'm super tired. Gonna go to bed."Also Mom: (thinking) Wait, did I turn off the oven? Better make sure. (checks oven) Yep, oven was off. Gotta turn on…
I sit down on the couch next to my 5 year old, with tears in my eyes. I look her and say “I’m sorry.” She immediately says “I forgive you.”…
I love a clean house, but since I have kids, work full-time, and currently have a pile of laundry that rivals some mountains I’ve hiked, it’s not always possible for…
Last night, I started to imagine what it would be like if I died.Like mothers do.I laid in bed with a slight tickle in my throat and then the next…
The day I found out I was pregnant with Grace, I don’t remember being happy. I remember being terrified. Doug and I had only been married for a few months…
Read Part I of my journey with postpartum depression here. A Brief Respite Doug was a teacher and had taken some time off after Grace was born, but was now…
It was the first week of summer and I had already found myself sobbing in my room…twice. If strife was a color, I bet our neighbors could see it pouring…
God put the seed of marriage and motherhood in my heart at a very early age.I remember flipping through wedding magazines on the floor of my bedroom when I was…
I was sitting on the side of the bathtub holding it, and I asked my husband, “What are we going to do?” We wanted a baby and had waited a…