Over the past two years God has been whispering words to me. Words about quiet, solitude, rest, and prayer. My whole life I have never been afraid of sitting in the quiet and reading or just being in nature without talking. But with the hum of motherhood, work, and life there has been less time [...]
Tonight in the midwest it is cold. We have had multiple days of ice, winter mix, and cold temperatures that have kept the kids home from school and my husband home from work. After things cleared I braved the grocery store because we were almost out of everything. As I was preparing dinner this question [...]
The past few weeks it has been so foggy here in 417land and for some reason when it is really foggy or rainy and I am in the car--I usually get my best thoughts from God. This is one of them. Quilt your Life. As in the blanket. You see, I grew up with a [...]
This may be the most important blog I ever write about moms. I have had so many of these thoughts running through my mind for months and a lot of what I have to share rooted back in a post called Togetherness. You know how sometimes in the movies how the filmmakers will do that [...]
I'm about to say something so shocking you will not believe it. We didn't own a flat screen TV until last year. Also, we didn't have Netflix, cable, satellite or any other fancy TV programs. We had about seven channels and a TV that was at least a decade old. I was never upset by [...]
