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, [...]
Tag: mothers
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 [...]
The Summer Connection
You all, I am so excited about my first guest blogger for my Summer Fun series! Tonya Skyles is a wife and mother of three (we have a little bit in common) and she lives here in southern Missouri as well. Her and her sweet husband Adam have a two boys, who are 8 and [...]
Motherhood with Coen
I have been pretty quiet the past seven or so months and there is a reason for that. See...about three years ago, God laid it on my heart that there were things that I needed to say, but that I needed to do it for HIS glory, under his context. That I needed to say [...]