Month: June 2018
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Making room
Talking to mom friends this morning and realized motherhood is just absolute insanity. We never know what we will get for the day. It is a little out of our control and sometimes at the whim of our kids moods and behaviors. It swings back and forth, back and forth. I’m constantly tempted to follow […]
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Splash
This morning, I gather my three little ducklings (I called them my evil stepsisters yesterday, and I was obviously Cinderella) to head off to a local splash pad. Energy was up and we need some time outside and in this heat water must be involved. I’m driving and talking to my mom asking for prayer […]
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Writing
Writing and procrastination go hand and hand for me. I like to wait and wait and then just bust something out in like twenty minutes. Anybody else? We can dream and do the thing that we are dreaming about, or the bigger temptation for me is to just dream and leave it on the table. […]
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Play and rest
Play and rest. My default is to feel guilty when we are resting. Watching a movie, tv…maybe because there are better ways to rest. Isn’t this true of us all. How are we resting? Yesterday, my oldest and I played at a local trampoline park. I climbed, I jumped, I fell hard a lot. So […]
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Slow…
It’s hard to be grateful when you’re going 90 to nothing. Exhaustion. Bitterness. Fear. They all flow freely. I tend not to slow down because I don’t want to feel these things. But as I slow down, the feelings leave and gratitude is left. That deep sense of worth, unending worth no matter what you’ve […]
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To be a daughter
Oh my sweet girl. She’s a delight. I enjoy sitting and looking at her. It’s a delight just to be in her presence. Even when she’s ornery I still delight in her. All sides of her are wonderful because they make her, her. When she smiles it’s from ear to ear. When she talks she […]
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We all can be brave
“We all can be brave.”-my five year old. Last night I was scrolling through instagram and read a little blurb about Kate Spade committing suicide, how sad and lost she must have felt. And the person quoted from an article stating that we tell girls to be perfect and not brave. I thought “oh man, […]
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Letting fear lead
Most of my life, fear has lead. Even after becoming a Christian in the seventh grade, I have journals of asking God to make me brave, to relieve my fears. To no avail. It was a way of life before I was a Christian and continued. I wasn’t sure I was “saved” because this struggle […]
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