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

I Still Can’t Believe You’re Mine

I still can’t believe you’re mine. Lately, I’ve found myself reflecting on how far we’ve come—two babies, multiple moves, and the weight of…

Grief

I Miss Having Parents

I have been living with the ache of loss for so long that I truly don’t remember what it feels like not to carry it. Sometimes it rests quietly…

Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen

Soon There Will Be No More Breakfasts To Make

T-minus 44 days until a new beginning- Math has never been my strong suit or my favorite subject, but it will be about 19 years spent rising and…

Kids

Robotics Kids Are Building More than You Can See

These robotics kids are going to shape our future. I think this every time I watch an elementary, middle school, or high school competition. My…

Marriage

True Love Is Built In the Moments No One Sees

There is nothing simple about raising a medically complex child. We carry emergency plans the way others carry wallets. Med lists are memorized.…

Living, Motherhood

I’m Going to Tell You the Things Your Mom Should Have Told You

During my oldest daughter’s freshman year of college, I started being haunted by a recurring dream of an old-fashioned suitcase—one of those…

Faith, Living

Your Worth Is Not Someone Else’s To Measure

Insecurity is something we all carry in one form or another. For me, it has probably always looked confident and outgoing from the outside. But…

Teen

She’s 13 and Figuring Life Out

We’re in the teen years now. The years that were always way off in the future. Those times that seemed like decades away, that other parents were…

Kids

Foster Care Kids Are Worth Fighting for

Sometimes foster care looks like bringing a child from a hard place into your home. Sometimes it looks like sitting at a ball field with a former…

Motherhood

The Half-Dressed Mom and Love in the Details

I am a proper mom. Not fancy, not prim—practical. I am dressed for the time of day, always. That is simply who I am. Except for this morning. This…

Kids

We Aren’t Holding Her Back—We’re Giving Her More Time

When we decided to give our preschooler another year before kindergarten, I thought the hardest part would be explaining it to other people. I was…

Living

My In-Laws Don’t Like Me and It Breaks My Heart

Since I was a little girl, I dreamed of what it might be like to gain an entire family when I got married. My parents were lovely. I never wanted for…

I Still Can’t Believe You’re Mine

I Miss Having Parents

Soon There Will Be No More Breakfasts To Make

Robotics Kids Are Building More than You Can See

True Love Is Built In the Moments No One Sees

I’m Going to Tell You the Things Your Mom Should Have Told You

Your Worth Is Not Someone Else’s To Measure

She’s 13 and Figuring Life Out

Foster Care Kids Are Worth Fighting for

The Half-Dressed Mom and Love in the Details

We Aren’t Holding Her Back—We’re Giving Her More Time

My In-Laws Don’t Like Me and It Breaks My Heart

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So God Made a Mother

Get It Now

So God Made a Mother