Her View From Home - Motherhood, Marriage, Faith and Grief

Sometimes Your Pain Becomes a Ministry

I never wanted kids. Let me just start there. It almost ended my relationship with my now-husband because I was so certain motherhood wasn’t…

Living, Marriage

Dear Daddy, I Wish You Could See Yourself As We Do

The side of my husband who is hardest on himself usually shows up late at night. The house is quiet, the kids are finally asleep, and the day has…

Living

Mothers and Stepmothers: Who’s on First?

The roles. The expectations. The unspoken, undefined rules. The hurt feelings no one wants to talk about. It could be a scene from an old Abbott and…

Motherhood

Mom Showed Us Love that Lasts

We moved a few years ago, and we had a closet that needed some reworking. In doing so, my husband found some old photos. He pulled out an album that…

Living

Do We Really Want a ’90s Summer?

The year is 2026: we’re inviting thousands of strangers to get ready with us, threatening our own deaths on a lot of different hills and, if…

Grief

Sometimes Healing Doesn’t Look Like Moving On

Outside, the sky hung in a thick, dim slab, like a ceiling over the trees that stood crooked in the wind. Not the fresh spring breeze we’re used to…

Motherhood

This Is How I’m Raising My Sensitive Son

When I was pregnant with my son, everyone warned me of what was to come. “Just you wait,” they’d say with an underlying schadenfreude,…

Motherhood

It’s Time for Us To Start Talking about Menopause

Disclaimer: The information included below is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Menopause.…

Grief, Loss

Now that You’re Gone, I Sit In This Waiting Room Alone

I lay in bed this morning, sweet boy. It is Saturday. Seven of them since you left. Half awake, I turned over and saw Grief staring right at me. She…

Living, Marriage

To the Woman Who Was Betrayed

He promised you a lifetime, a family, safety, and security. You carried life and brought it into this world for him. Even still, in the trenches of…

Kids

He Waited for Me By the Window and It Felt Like Love

Yesterday I went to urgent care. I had a sore throat, and my doctor had no openings. It was super disappointing because I actually had plans in the…

Living

5 Things I’m Learning about 50

When my dad turned 80, he—and we, by default—celebrated all year. My sister made a fantastic, larger-than-life sign of him posing in front of his…

Sometimes Your Pain Becomes a Ministry

Dear Daddy, I Wish You Could See Yourself As We Do

Mothers and Stepmothers: Who’s on First?

Mom Showed Us Love that Lasts

Do We Really Want a ’90s Summer?

Sometimes Healing Doesn’t Look Like Moving On

This Is How I’m Raising My Sensitive Son

It’s Time for Us To Start Talking about Menopause

Now that You’re Gone, I Sit In This Waiting Room Alone

To the Woman Who Was Betrayed

He Waited for Me By the Window and It Felt Like Love

5 Things I’m Learning about 50

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So God Made a Mother

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So God Made a Mother