~~~~ The day had been rough. A mom  brooding in anger over all the messes she had to clean up after the kids left for school….messes that were technically their responsibility. While rearranging schedules in order to tend to the disaster zones, she seethed at kids and blamed herself for not having trained well […]

Its hard to believe that this happened a month ago now (and that I never actually posted about it), but now as the next one approaches this weekend we covet prayers for God to gather His people, feed His people, and refresh His people.  It wasn’t exactly a day to celebrate being a mother. But […]

      Three years ago, my “world” lay in shatters. My life purpose was utterly uprooted.  My heart was strewn out, torn from the people and place I loved most deeply. (see below) And God was sending our family to the place I swore I’d never go….to the Bible-belt South with church on every […]

  Hostess. Yes. Hostess with the Mostess. Definitely not. It was the “dinner party” of supposed disaster.  Somehow we had managed to invite three different families over for dinner who 1. had never met each other 2. come from completely different walks of life and 3. had nothing in common with each other.  Danny was […]

I know many of you have asked me personally about the different events we had at Christmas and, yes, I am STILL compiling the pictures and getting the update done…But in the meantime, here are some snapshots of what has happened since those events, which, in my humble opinion are some great excuses for why […]

We have all been there. Stuck in a rut. Asking, “Why am I like this?!?” “Why do I keep doing this?” This summer I was asking these questions and feeling powerless to get out of the rut.  And I have found that we can rack our brains, and read our books and attend our counseling, […]

The curtain rod fell down on my head as I balanced on a stool for the tenth time that day, all with hyperactive children running all around me a few feet below. I half caught it and then slammed it down on the stack of boxes below. “I can’t get anything done around here! I […]