I mean this in both a figurative sense and a literal sense. Because I was happily minding my own business in my Soap Sanctuary, slicing off ends of bulk soap logs and thinking of all the pretty arrangements I could make out of them to sell at our local Farmer’s Market… I wear latex gloves [...]
You never know what the very person right next to you is going through. You never know what wounds, stresses, or discouragements they are carrying around silently. We should pray that our words would be well-timed and seasoned with salt in our interactions with others. They may be dying on the inside and smiling on [...]
I witnessed Ezra (2 years old) discovering the curiosity of the light in the fridge. Does it stay off when the door is closed? He’s on a mission, folks.
Arwen told me that she put lots of extra lovin’ on my spot of the bed. Should I expect a mess? She wants me to “feel it [...]
Those that know me in real life know that we’ve had quite the struggle with Evelyn and getting sleep. She’s my most high needs baby yet… probably because of all the stress hormones she was bathing in those last three months in my womb, which is why I was in such a hurry to get [...]
Oftentimes our sins and failures are blatantly shoved in our faces by the behaviors of our children.
Recently, I’ve noticed that one child in particular tends to constantly compare herself to others. We were looking at Brent’s facebook page and a sibling pointed out a picture of herself and her Daddy. The immediate response was, “Where [...]
I was attacked last night in my sleep.
Attacked.
On my FaceBook page.
A simple status update: “Sign of an unvaccinated child: when given a toy syringe to play with, uses it to do “shots” of herbs in their mouth.”
My kids got a doctor dress-up kit for Christmas. Since they haven’t really ever been to the doctor that [...]
I’ve decided that I need to adopt a 2 year old and a 12 year old.
Certify me on that one. I must be certifiably insane if I just said I wanted to adopt a 2 year old, right?
Ezra needs a buddy. Everyone is either bigger and more capable, or smaller and cuter than him. Evelyn [...]
Sigh. New Year’s Resolutions. Does everyone make them? Does anyone ever get to the point where they stop doing that?
There are so many areas of my life that are up in the air right now. Areas that I thought were fundamental, so black and white, are now a shade of gray. Beliefs that I [...]
I’ve been struggling with some questions lately…
Such as, if God gives His children good gifts, why do bad things happen? How come, if I’m trying to live my life to glorify Him…How come my life isn’t easy? (Of course, we never find in scripture that a life following Christ is easy. But we do find [...]
I know you’ve done it.
You’re bored and sitting somewhere in public with nothing to do other than stare at the people around you. You examine their crooked teeth, their unstyled hair, their ill fitted clothing and wonder where they came from, what they are doing here, and where they are headed next (and why in [...]
