This may be my favorite blog post title of all time. I am going to be really vulnerable with you today in an effort to bring you some joy and hope. There are two parts to this, the first being the way we view ourselves. So often we get caught up in the comparison game, [...]
Truths About Motherhood I Know Today
1/ I have been a mother for 13 years and everyday I still question if I know what on earth I am doing. 2/ Some days I am AFRAID of mealtime. Literally fear overcomes me because a few years ago I sort of had it figured out how to feed my family in a healthy [...]
The green shoes that nearly did me in and the whisper that turned this sinking ship around
I have realized something this week that I never fully realized before. ALL THREE OF MY CHILDREN ARE STRONG WILLED. What. Is. Happening. They each have different degrees of strong willed sprits, but this past week I learned that they were so much stronger than I ever thought. It all started with the hunt for [...]
Under the Surface
At our house, we LOVE blackberries. Over the past five years Derick has slowly planted and cultivated about forty plants, so that when blackberry season arrives---we have berries a plenty. This year as I was picking berries I started to notice from a few feet away that there would be these HUGE berries hiding directly [...]
Why I Started
Recently I have been thinking about why I started this blog. This teensy tiny blog that had only a handful of followers has been a way for me to share things that were on my mind, things that I wanted to tell people--but didn't really know how, things that I was struggling with, and wondered [...]