Dear Graduate, I Love You Forever
I never imagined these days of preparing for graduation, senior prom, senior photos, and you actually moving out would come. A few weeks into your…
Continue ReadingThe Baby I Prayed for Became the Daughter I Needed
It started with pain, doubt, and prayers just moments before they laid you in my waiting arms. The cumulation of months of planning, anticipation,…
Continue ReadingWhen You Wonder, “Why Do I Even Try?”
I have thought these words to myself countless times in the past year. With a fresh teenager in seventh grade and a pre-teen in fifth, it has been a…
Continue ReadingI Prayed for These Moments I’m Living with You
There’s a half-eaten, yellow Dum-Dum sucker stuck in the console of my dashboard, right in front of my gear shift. Every day when I pick my…
Continue ReadingLove Beyond Words
My daughter Lexi lost her words and some of her motor functioning when she was two years old. She was three when the silent intruder of Rett Syndrome…
Continue ReadingAlways Choose Adventure
Here’s the thing about traveling with little kids. Is it hard? Sometimes. Sometimes it looks like a whole carry-on dedicated solely to snacks,…
Continue ReadingThere’s No One Who Gets It Like a Mom Friend
I made my first mom friend at six weeks postpartum. I was pushing our son in his brand-new stroller not yet stained by sunscreen or covered in…
Continue ReadingThese Family Recipes Feed My Soul
There’s a recipe in my cookbook so caked with flour and cinnamon that my mother’s handwriting struggles to be seen. It’s for sweet roll dough,…
Continue ReadingDaddy, Am I Beautiful?
“Daddy, do I look beautiful?” I heard my daughter ask my husband from the other room. I barely heard what she said as I was in the kitchen…
Continue ReadingI Thank God Every Day for These Babies
You know that saying, “All of God’s grace in one tiny face”? Growing up, I never understood the meaning behind it. I thought it was…
Continue ReadingShe’s the Friend I Hope You Have
Good friends are hard to come by. Life is busy and friendships take a backseat. I’ve never had a large circle of friends, there have always…
Continue ReadingSensitive Sons Are Strong Too
My son has always been timid. When he was a baby, he cried when he lost his pacifier in his crib. If I laughed too loudly, he might burst into tears.…
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