The Romance in Spontaneity
My mom was was a missionary's kid of the 1960's. Her father a pioneer missionary to the West Indies, she spent a significant portion of her childhood in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Bahamas. Sounds romantic, right? It was hard. They didn't have running water, and they lived on SPAM. To...
Paralysis
As I sit here at the computer, my fingers hovered over the keys, I feel the weight of the silence pushing me from all sides. In a house full of children, silence is golden, right? Maybe. Or maybe not. Those golden moments are precious, and I soak them up. But in the soaking, I want also to be...
Humble Tuesday
It's rare these days that I get any one on one time with my kids. It's the nature of our season of life. So it was a nice little surprise when I got to go to the store alone with Landon last week. One of the joys of having a baby with older children in the house is the small amount of freedom...
You Can’t Do It All, And That’s Okay
When I graduated college, I really believed that I was on the path to a huge career. Early on in our marriage, Lee and I sat down and wrote out a list of 100 dreams - because those are things you do when you're young and married and feel certain that the world is yours for the taking. My list...
