By Lauren Barrett We’re Waiting To Adopt, and Sometimes I Fear We’ll be Waiting Forever
July 2021: I wasn’t pregnant. I stood in the apartment in New York City about to crumble in the tiny,…
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If You’re Stuck in the Angry Room
Recently, a good friend and I were chatting about the upcoming weekend. Her daughter, a first-grader, went to a birthday…
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The Rock Bottom Rebuild
The year was 2012. I had three little boys ages one, three, and five. My husband had gotten on the…
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By Amy Keyes We’re Building Precious Memories through These Family Traditions
I am sitting in my happiest place in the world: a beach in Puerto Vallarta in the middle of a…
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I Live with Cerebral Palsy and Deep Peace
To the people God has given me to love: I thank Him every day for you. Grief is a funny…
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Youth Sports Doesn’t Need Bleachers Full of Coaches
"Why did that guy yell at you?" my 11-year-old daughter asked me after my 13-year-old son's basketball game. My response…
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The Longing to Belong
Hesitantly, I stepped onto the machine. It had been years since I’d been to a gym, let alone used an…
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By SaraLeann A. Daddow Forgiveness Is Hard
There I was, out of breath in the cold, wet field leaning against my shovel as if it were the…
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By Natalie Platzkoester Pavlak A Grandma Is Forever
We all have those moments from childhood that at the time maybe felt . . . insignificant? That is, until…
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What if We Stopped Making Homework the Norm?
Every day I pick my children up from school and ask the same question: Do you have homework tonight? I…
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By Krystal Sieben Parenting Is Easier When We’re Kind To Each Other
Maybe I am blessed (or incredibly naïve) but I’m part of a community where I haven’t run into mean moms.…
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May We Give Hope to the Hurting after the California Fires
My family and the surrounding neighborhoods were evacuated from the Waldo Canyon fire 13 years ago. I watched the screen…
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