Does She Know She’s Beautiful
She’s wearing her hair in a side braid today. It falls over her left shoulder. At risk of sounding cliché, I swear she grew taller last night. Her neon yellow shorts accentuate how her legs are almost as long as mine, those legs that were formed in the darkness,...
Back to the ordinary…a mom’s re-entry to life.
It’s the ordinary, the everydayness of motherhood, that waits for us today. We wake up in our own beds. Exhausted and refreshed at the same time. Four days of travel and laughing and talking for hours and listening for even more. Four days off from our regular routine...
A new website – same ole me
A year and a half ago I had a book come out. A book that was my story where I tried to let women know they are not alone in the difficult parts of life and mothering. I figured some people would read and want to connect with me. And so I needed a place for them to...Teaching My Children to Be Brave
It was one of those days when the details weren’t unfolding as I’d planned. But with each turn, I tried to make the best. Half way through the day I found myself having lunch with three of my four beauties at a Chick-fil-A while our minivan’s tire was replaced. Every...Read moreThe presence of fear is not the absence of courage, it is the soil of it.