21 Oct Inner Beauty
I saw someone once post the following on Facebook about women...
19 Oct Kids in the Kitchen: 7 Tips for Training Little Cooks
If you read my post about the chore charts I created for my girls this fall, you may have noticed that my older two daughters asked to help with cooking. In an effort to fan this useful and creative flame, I assigned them each a few...
12 Oct Coming Home: A Sea Change
I turn 31 this week. Tonight, I’m thinking back on my 30th birthday, an evening spent surrounded by the dearest of friends in Washington, DC. I can’t even believe that was only a year ago, so much has changed. Yesterday, I boarded my one-way flight...
07 Oct Just Keep Moving
A few weekends ago we went hiking down the side of a pretty steep mountain. This picture doesn't do it justice but it was pretty steep. We watched some other "young" (I mean...
29 Sep Worry: The Biggest Waste of a Mother’s Time
Surfing Facebook? Pursuing Pinterest? Binge-watching Netflix shows? Pursuing Pokemon? While all these activities may indeed distract us from more meaningful investments of our time, I would like to propose that there is a hidden but deadly enemy we women often mistake for a friend to our...
26 Sep Grief: Walking Forward with Hope
I can honestly, and maybe strangely say, grief is a topic near to my heart. My classroom has been walking through the trenches, crying buckets, feeling anxious, feeling fearful, despairing of life, feeling mad at God, putting one step in front of the other, experiencing trial after trial, falling...
23 Sep Healthy Family Eating= Planning (part 2)
I posted several weeks ago about my process to get my family eating healthy and some tools I’ve found helpful. You can read about it all here. I’ve had several follow up conversations with people about this blog post asking more detailed questions on how I...
14 Sep I NEED SOME HUGS AND LOVE
This spring, we had the privilege of grossly overstaying our welcome with one of my nearest and dearest in Austin, Texas. We descended on her family for eight days, and had a blast doing life together with three toddlers between us. We decided that those...
12 Sep God’s ways and not my own
Am I going to follow my ways? Or am I going to follow the ways of another? 3 year old struggles Our amazing 3 year old is currently in a challenging season (for him and us). He wants his way. A lot. Whether it relates to what he wants...
26 Aug The Cure for Mommy Guilt
The darkened room beckoned me and I entered softly, not wanting to wake them. As I passed between my three daughters asleep in the moonlight, I inhaled the soothing sounds of their quiet breathing as crickets chirped happily outside in the wet heat of the...