Mothering for some, I hear, is a joy beyond measure. I listen to some mom’s talk about their kids as if they were tiny little gods on beautiful golden pedestals and I think, “Did I miss that lecture in college?” This is not to say that I don’t love my kids. I love them so [...]
This past week has been so depressing. Sickness can do bad things to a person’s mind. I have felt so out of sorts and not in the mood to write at all. And yet, I have desperately missed doing it. I am realizing that writing has become for me a [...]
Ok so I almost cannot handle this. This greatful/thankful business is really doing a number on me. It is like going to the fair and eating too much cotton candy to the point of puking, but wanting more because you know you won’t get it again ’till the fair comes next year… [...]
This is the entry I made in the blog I mentioned in an earlier post called 1000 Gifts. I am brimming with thoughts today and yet I cannot put any of them into real words. I figured this will do for today. Would love to hear something simple that you are thankful [...]
Once we were going to dallas for a wedding shower and I did not have a pair of slinky little sandals for my outfit (an outfit that I hated by the way) I was riding with my parents (and husband and two kids) and I told my parents just to pull up in front [...]
I was listening to this song again yesterday (one of my favorites) and I was just struck so hard by specifically the pre chorus’ (1st and 2nd) There are so many things that swirl through my mind as I listen to just this one song. That is why I love Derek’s music, because [...]
This is what my life was like. My friends knew me (i think) as a girl who loved God but said what she thought when she thought it…which sometimes included some very colorful language to get the point/humor across. Now after years of “life” happening to me outside of the walls of [...]
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