With four kids ranging from 10 months old to 6 years old, quiet/nap time is VITAL for me. The days we don’t get it are rough for everyone. By the end we are all overstimulated and exhausted. So, unless unforeseen … Continue reading →
Imagine that you have a friend training for a marathon. She works for months and months to prepare for it. Finally the big day comes and she runs the race. As she crosses the finish line she falls and injures … Continue reading →
FAILURE! Fail, fail, FAILURE! That’s what I kept saying to myself last week as I was frantically working to do way too many things at once, and failing to be very successful at any of them. Tears were beginning to … Continue reading →
Learning From Lent: How Is God Calling You To Be Obedient? The other day my husband told me that he was considering deleting his Facebook account. In my heart and mind, I did not react to this as a loving, … Continue reading →
Where The Grass Is Greenest They say the grass is always greenest on the other side. It sure seems like that with parenting a lot of the time. If only our family were like them, we would be better. … Continue reading →
Gluten-Free Breakfast Pizza Bites My husband and I have discovered recently that we’re in a bit of a breakfast rut. We keep having the same few things over and over again. Pancakes, oatmeal, scrambled eggs and hash browns … Continue reading →
Dear Mom Who Couldn’t Bounce Back, I see you there, five months after delivery, still in your maternity clothes. You get that look in your eyes when you hear of others who were back in their normal clothes three weeks … Continue reading →
You’ve spent all day working like mad to make the house look perfect. Exhausted, but proud, you wait for your husband to get home. Only, when he does get home he doesn’t even seem to notice. It hurts. Doesn’t he … Continue reading →
Since the bulk of my time and energy is focused on my family it only makes sense for my first post to be an introduction to the whole crazy bunch. First their names, then to ‘meet’ them. … Continue reading →
