Our Home Isn’t Picture Perfect, but It’s Perfectly Us
The online world is filled with pictures of finished homes with color coordination, painted walls, and seasonal decorations. I never…
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The online world is filled with pictures of finished homes with color coordination, painted walls, and seasonal decorations. I never…
Continue ReadingMy daughter places a paper in front of me on the kitchen counter, looking up at me expectedly. My eyebrows…
Continue ReadingThis December—like every other—has felt a little nuts to me. I’m the kind of person who likes to think she’ll…
Continue ReadingThe other day I had a suggestion from a friend: sometimes you have to pay for the memories. Her comment…
Continue ReadingI have vivid memories of mornings as a child. I would wake up and go downstairs into the living room…
Continue ReadingI stood at the checkout line while the cashier scanned my rewards card and said the balance aloud: $72.45 I…
Continue ReadingDo you see me as I rush around the stores shopping for the perfect gift for my husband and babies,…
Continue ReadingIt's a different kind of love when grandparents live far from their grandchildren. They often miss the birthdays and the…
Continue ReadingI'm just a mom. I'm not a successful businesswoman. I'm not a well-known writer. I'm not fantastically gifted or exceptionally…
Continue ReadingI'm a mom with a foot in two worlds. One foot is in the homeschool world, and one in public school.…
Continue ReadingI reach into the clean clothes, pulling out each damp piece one by one and draping them over my folded…
Continue ReadingI decorate for Christmas a little earlier every year for several reasons. One, my birthday falls in early December, and…
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