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Motherhood
March 4, 2020
3 Minute Read

I Want To Remember it All

I want highlight reels of my life but not just the images—the feel, smell, taste, sound, and sights of years ago. Actually, I don’t really want…

Kids, Loss
February 21, 2020
5 Minute Read

Duncan’s Pacifier Keeps His Memory Alive

This week my first grader came home with a paper bag and an assignment to fill it with items from our household that represent our family. In weeks…

Living
February 8, 2020
3 Minute Read

Dear Grandma, I’ll Remember For You

I took this picture because I wanted to remember. I wanted to remember the way my grandma’s hand felt under mine, her soft skin wrinkled from years…

Faith
January 5, 2020
6 Minute Read

Even Though They’re Gone, I Still Find My Parents in Church

In the 1980s and 1990s, my mom and dad were my Sunday school teachers at different and repeated times throughout my youth. Their tenure was broken…

Kids, Motherhood
December 21, 2019
5 Minute Read

Spend Time With Your Kids Every Chance You Get

Snow day . . . before Christmas . . . in the month of December—for the working mom or any mom, it might as well be a natural disaster. I…

Living
December 18, 2019
5 Minute Read

My Nightmare Before Christmas Took Place in a Cardboard Box

“All the Christmas ornaments are destroyed,” my husband Greg said one Saturday this fall. “What?” I glared at him like he was crazy, because…

Kids, Motherhood
December 7, 2019
3 Minute Read

Your Kids Will Remember How Christmas Felt Not How It Looked

As much as I hate to admit it, I’m a stickler when it comes to decorations. Once, when my older girls were toddlers, I thought it would be so…

Motherhood
November 18, 2019
3 Minute Read

Don’t Collect Missed Moments, Mama

This life is crazy. It seems we are always going. The only time we stop is. . . wait, we don’t really ever stop. We are constantly going. Our…

Living
November 11, 2019
5 Minute Read

6 Reasons Thanksgiving in the 90s Was the Best

Thanksgiving Day, 1990: a 6-year-old girl woke up with an itch. The 6-year-old girl itched that itch beside her belly button. The 6-year-old girl…

Kids, Motherhood
October 20, 2019
4 Minute Read

It Could Be the Last Time—And I Want To Remember

“Love, you might want to get a picture of this. It could be the last time.” What is my six-foot-four husband feeling so sentimental about? I…

Memories

I Want To Remember it All

Duncan’s Pacifier Keeps His Memory Alive

Dear Grandma, I’ll Remember For You

Even Though They’re Gone, I Still Find My Parents in Church

Spend Time With Your Kids Every Chance You Get

My Nightmare Before Christmas Took Place in a Cardboard Box

Your Kids Will Remember How Christmas Felt Not How It Looked

Don’t Collect Missed Moments, Mama

6 Reasons Thanksgiving in the 90s Was the Best

It Could Be the Last Time—And I Want To Remember

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