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Watching Your Children Build the Life You Prayed For Is Beautiful

“I love you, Mom.” “Hmmm?” (A little louder) “I love you.” “I love you too…so very much.” I’d been deep in thought, listening to…

Kids

Helping My Son Through Bullying Is Healing Something In Me Too

Bedtime is when my kids tend to open up the most. The lights are low, the day is winding down, and their guard finally comes down with it. One night,…

Grief, Loss, Motherhood

I Lost My Daughter on Mother’s Day: 3 Truths I’m Believing Today

Editor’s note: This post discusses child loss Child loss changes Mother’s Day. My 19-month-old, Julia, died suddenly on Mother’s Day in…

Living

To Those Who Dreamed of Something Different on Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is one of the hardest days of the year for me. The truth is, I always wanted to be a mom. I’m not a mother. Not in the traditional…

Motherhood

If You Give a Mom a Bouquet…

If you give a mom a bouquet… She goes to grab a vase to put it in. As she grabs the vase, she also grabs the duster because she knows the spot for…

Motherhood

Here In the Liminal Space of Parenting

It’s Friday night at 8:00. The intermittent snoring of an 80-pound lap dog is the only thing slicing through the silence of my home. It feels…

Motherhood

Mothers Are the Givers

As we were decorating the tree last Christmas, my son dug to the bottom of a box and pulled out a Snoopy ornament. He set it off to the side quickly…

Living

In Your 30s the Stakes Feel Higher

I’m in the years where I’m not old, but I’m no longer young. Some women my age are just announcing their first pregnancies, while others like…

Faith

My Prayer Is Simple Now: “I Believe; Help My Unbelief.”

I have spent most of my life in faith. Not circling it or analyzing it from a distance, but inside it—learning its language before I even realized…

Living

Sometimes You Just Need a Day Off—Give Yourself Permission To Take One

I didn’t need a sick day. I needed a well day—and I didn’t realize how much until I finally took one. We’ve labeled our time off into neat,…

Motherhood

Hyperemesis Gravidarum Means I Survived Something No One Could See

My hands were trembling as I reached for the pregnancy test developing on the bathroom counter. It had been three months since we lost our second…

Living, Motherhood

I’m Learning To Feel Like I Belong In a Room Because I Want Her To Know She Always Does

It took me 39 years to like myself. I mean really, honestly look in the mirror and say, “You go, girl.” I understand the concept of progress, not…

Watching Your Children Build the Life You Prayed For Is Beautiful

Helping My Son Through Bullying Is Healing Something In Me Too

I Lost My Daughter on Mother’s Day: 3 Truths I’m Believing Today

To Those Who Dreamed of Something Different on Mother’s Day

If You Give a Mom a Bouquet…

Here In the Liminal Space of Parenting

Mothers Are the Givers

In Your 30s the Stakes Feel Higher

My Prayer Is Simple Now: “I Believe; Help My Unbelief.”

Sometimes You Just Need a Day Off—Give Yourself Permission To Take One

Hyperemesis Gravidarum Means I Survived Something No One Could See

I’m Learning To Feel Like I Belong In a Room Because I Want Her To Know She Always Does

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So God Made a Mother

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So God Made a Mother