God Cares How You Keep Your Heart, Not How Well You Keep Your House
It’s supper. Baths. Pajamas. Brush teeth. Night-night stories. Prayers. Goodnight hugs. One more story. Goodnight kiss. Lights out. Deep breath…
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It’s supper. Baths. Pajamas. Brush teeth. Night-night stories. Prayers. Goodnight hugs. One more story. Goodnight kiss. Lights out. Deep breath…
Continue ReadingWe can’t go to church. We used to go . . . Finn went with us every Sunday morning. When…
Continue ReadingMotherhood requires patience. It requires compassion, organization, and creativity. Motherhood requires persistence. It requires firmness, authority, and tenacity. Truthfully, motherhood…
Continue ReadingAfter months of steadfast trying, tracking, praying, hoping, begging to get pregnant, I took my millionth test late one night…
Continue ReadingWhen I gave birth to my son, my body was wrecked. Even though I had an easy pregnancy. Even though…
Continue ReadingTough it out. Don’t cry. Don’t be a girl. We have been told for years that to show pain, or…
Continue ReadingThis is 200. This is what four kids in seven years, COVID, seven months of high dose prednisone, and life,…
Continue Reading“Maybe I’m just a bad miscarriage mom,” I whispered to my husband lying in bed one night. We were at…
Continue ReadingOur children are mostly grown at this point. Mostly. There are no toys lying all over the house. Clothes and…
Continue ReadingI schedule my laundry-folding sessions for the nights when my favorite show is on TV. I think the habit grew…
Continue ReadingWe are the generation of mothers who know too much. We know what we shouldn't eat when we're pregnant, what…
Continue ReadingI didn’t know you. We were always together—I fed you from my body, then my hands. I bathed you, I…
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