How Simplifying Your Home Can Energize Your Life
Periodically throughout the year, Husband and I will walk around our house with a box or a trash bag, whatever is needed, and get rid of things. We do this because with six children, our house could easily become overwhelmed with toys, stickers, art supplies, rocks...
This is What Happens When an Imperfect Woman Has a Son
I watch my boy from where I sit, his back curved just the littlest bit while his head hangs over the Star Wars book he’s reading, and I marvel at how his brow is missing the soft spot between eye and forehead, how his face has thinned out of the baby cheeks and chin,...
The True Story of True Love
Husband and I recently celebrated thirteen years married. What did we do, you ask? We sat at home and cooked our own dinner and ate it while kids tried to talk all over each other and we didn’t say a word, just stared at each other with wide, overwhelmed eyes. We...
This is the Story of Mental Health and Slippery Faith
It’s just a tiny thing, oval and white and smaller than the vitamins I swallow every single day, but I leave it on my desk and stare at it. It’s not the enemy. The panic-lump in my throat is the enemy, and this tiny white oval could help. I know this. But still I...
What We All Have to Offer the World
The other day, I was puttering around the kitchen, minding my own business, not even realizing that I was singing a song. I often do this, because I enjoy singing. I don’t usually plan to sing. It just happens. My 7-year-old came into the kitchen, put his hands on his...
What It Really Means When You Feel Like an Invisible Mother
Mothers give and give and give, and no one even seems to notice. What if we love most in our invisibility?
On the Valuable Parenting Lessons Geek Culture Provides
Today I'm doing something a teeny bit different. I'm talking about a book, because, well, everybody knows I love to read. Reading is a definite part of my life, just as much as my kids are. And this book actually has to do with my kids. Geek Parenting: What Joffrey,...
On the Fairytale Nature (Or Not) Of Love
It’s the familiar smell of his skin, the way it stretches across his back, just waiting for my touch; it’s his arms wrapping all the way around me, even when I’ve been a little crazy and weepy and anxious; it’s his voice, filling the house with music always. It’s the...
Why You Should Steer Clear of Divine-Smelling Deodorant
I have an amazing friend who runs an amazing company called Handcrafted HoneyBee, which makes personal care products that are, you guessed it, amazing. Husband and I are pretty big sticklers for choosing healthy personal care products--not only for our own health but...