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Without going into detail that might one day embarrass her…let me just say that the last few weeks have not been easy for us. She’s made poor choices. She’s been warned. She’s made those poor choices again. She’s suffered consequences. She’s pretended they didn’t affect her, even though I know they did. She is her […]
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This is my gorgeous niece, Baby H. She is seriously one of the happiest babies I have ever met. And in her short eight months of life so far, she has been through a LOT. She is a little fighter, this one. A lover of life and love and family. She had a mountain to […]
Tonight, after an ordinary sort of day, I helped Mackenna through her bedtime routine and then tucked her in for the night. We did all the usual stuff…ate the last minute snacks, said the things: “yes you have to go to bed now…no you can’t stay up later…it is already later…you can do whatever you […]
In my last post (here), I wrote about approaching life’s waves, and my plan to call upon the Lord and focus on keeping my eyes on Him and not on the waves surrounding me. And for the most part, I was referring to the waves of motherhood that are exhausting, frustrating, annoying, tricky. You know, […]
Waves. Sudden, surging, progressing movements. Mothering sometimes feels like an ocean to me. We have times when things are calm and peaceful. The kids behave the way I expect them to behave. Things are under control. And then often out of nowhere, something suddenly changes. Someone is sick or hurt. Someone used ugly words at someone else. […]
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