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

To the Emotional Mom of a High School Senior, Enjoy It

Dear moms of high school seniors, I see your posts on social media, and I sense your excitement, mixed with anxiety and a bit of sadness (if we are…

I Know My Friends Aren’t Bothered by My Messy House, but I Am

Friendship, Living, Motherhood

I Know My Friends Aren’t Bothered by My Messy House, but I Am

My house screams at me. It screams to clear off the kitchen counters, to put away the clean clothes, to organize the shoe collection in our entry, to…

I’ll Never Be Ready for My Son To Let Go of Me

Motherhood, Tween

I’ll Never Be Ready for My Son To Let Go of Me

The arts-and-crafts tote overflowed with cylinders of petrified Play-Doh, crispy-bristled paintbrushes, and Elmer’s glue bottles with clogged…

Dear Preschool Teachers, I’m Going to Miss You So Much

Child, Motherhood

Dear Preschool Teachers, I’m Going to Miss You So Much

Dear preschool teachers, There’s just no other way to say this— I’m going to miss you so much. You are the first adults outside of our family…

A Medical Diagnosis Challenges a Marriage

Cancer, Living, Marriage

A Medical Diagnosis Challenges a Marriage

It is no secret now that Albert Pujols and his wife have announced their divorce shortly after she had surgery to remove a brain tumor. As a breast…

Kids, Motherhood

Don’t Let Anyone Rush You, Mama

From the moment our children are born, other people make it challenging to stay in the present moment—they start asking questions that look forward…

There Are a Million Reasons Being a Mom Is Hard

Motherhood

There Are a Million Reasons Being a Mom Is Hard

Being a mom is hard. The endless messes to clean up. The sleepless nights and sticky fingers touching everywhere. The meal prep, the nap…

You Are So Much More than the Doubts in Your Head

Living, Motherhood

You Are So Much More than the Doubts in Your Head

Keep pushing. Push through every doubt the enemy instills in your mind. Push through the depression. Push through the worrisome moments. Push…

Dear Grandmother, I’m Not Ready to Lose You

Grief

Dear Grandmother, I’m Not Ready to Lose You

I had a visit from my grandmother the other day. It wasn’t a regular sit on the porch with a cup of tea kind of visit. It was more of an “I…

Motherhood

Motherhood Is Hard Because You’re Doing It Right

Before having children, I had a very romanticized idea of motherhood. Sure, I knew it would be hard. But I visualized the beautiful moments ahead:…

Motherhood

Just the Three of Us

On the eve of my daughter’s seventh birthday, I leaned against her doorway watching her sleep so peacefully. I roamed around my home admiring her…

Dear Child, God Sees All of You—And So Do I

Faith, Kids, Motherhood

Dear Child, God Sees All of You—And So Do I

Math has always come easily to him. Even from the beginning stages when we counted wooden blocks on the living room floor, the numbers just came to…

To the Emotional Mom of a High School Senior, Enjoy It

I Know My Friends Aren’t Bothered by My Messy House, but I Am

I’ll Never Be Ready for My Son To Let Go of Me

Dear Preschool Teachers, I’m Going to Miss You So Much

A Medical Diagnosis Challenges a Marriage

Don’t Let Anyone Rush You, Mama

There Are a Million Reasons Being a Mom Is Hard

You Are So Much More than the Doubts in Your Head

Dear Grandmother, I’m Not Ready to Lose You

Motherhood Is Hard Because You’re Doing It Right

Just the Three of Us

Dear Child, God Sees All of You—And So Do I

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