Awhile back, I remember standing in my kitchen one late-fall morning right after breakfast, watching the morning sun stream in from the windows in the morning room across from me. I felt a warm feeling of contentment; I love that time of day, when my home is just lit up with the beautiful sunshine, warm […]
I love myself a new planner! I always have, ever since high school when I first started using one every day. Those blank pages invite me to fill them right up; check marks just beg to be placed next to those endless rows of bulleted and color-coded “to-do’s”, measuring my days by the tangible tasks […]
Hello there, friends! I have been wanting so much to sit down and write, but it seems like every time I try, there is a sick kiddo or crisis of some kind, or I stare at the blank page with a serious case of mom=brain and feel like I have nothing to write! Over the […]
There is an amazing thing that happens when I start, finish and intersperse the day with prayer – my day is filled with peace, gratitude, strength, patience and abiding joy. Life things still happen – there are a bunch of little kids here, after all 藍 – but the underlying joy and strength that change […]
My mama’s Bible study group and I were reading through and studying the book of Jeremiah recently, and in the second chapter, God reveals His frustration at Judah for forsaking Him, the fountain of living water, for broken cisterns that they had made themselves – meaning that they had sunk deep into idolatry and sin […]
The other night, I was running the race and the finish line was bedtime. Little people all done for the day, check that box and move on! Bathtime was a process, complete with discovering a little lie that had been told, subsequent discipline and some big life lessons. At first, I was frustrated and immediately […]
I was standing there, looking in the mirror. Maybe you other mamas can relate, but in that moment, I was overwhelmed as I saw all of my flaws – my belly, that not so long ago was rounded out and twice quite literally bursting with life, now just there and sort of limp. My teeth, […]
I spent the days leading up to New Year’s much like everyone else, I imagine: determined to do whatever it takes to make 2021 a better year than 2020 was! I am coming out of the newly postpartum phase of life and feeling like I needed a jumpstart to be feeling good again, and so […]
My Christmas doodle this year! Maybe it’s the fact that I’m just coming out of the newborn season, or maybe it’s that I have so many loved ones expecting this year, but every time I have heard or seen the phrase “buon Natale” this year, it has stuck out to me and made me think […]
Hello there, lovely readers! It’s been a minute! I have missed this so much, but in truth, the past two months just haven’t left me much time (or brain cells!) to write — as it is, you will be getting lots of “3am thoughts” from here on out…please forgive my mom brain ramblings 😀 I […]
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