Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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And his kingdom shall have no end

In December of 2012 (yup, quite a long time ago) a good friend of mine whom I “met” online but also have had the great pleasure of spending time with in-person approached me about taking a line Nicene Creed and explaining what it meant to me over on her website as a part of aRead the whole post >>

· January 13, 2014 · Tagged With: Guest Posts, Hope, Spiritual Growth · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

My New Year’s Resolutions for 2014

“Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.” ~Edward E. Hale as quoted in Daily Strengths For Daily Needs.

· January 8, 2014 · · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

12 Days of Christmas in Pictures

{Hot Cocoa Cookies, the best cookies we made all season. HT: Hungry Runner Girl; recipe here.} {Someone has been working out…} {Pretend Mass with this beautiful Montessori Mass set} {Gaba and the girls} {Playing with our food} {Action shot} {Thank goodness for indoor swimming at the Family Y!} {She wants to be a vet whenRead the whole post >>

· January 6, 2014 · Tagged With: Christmas, Glimpses Into Our Life · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

What will they remember?

Each Advent season we head out to a local Christmas tree farm in search of the perfect tree. I am honestly okay with a Charlie Brown tree, but my detail-oriented husband is a perfectionist about things of which I am not and always has a hard time selecting the tree. The kids show him theirRead the whole post >>

· January 3, 2014 · Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, Grace, Hope, Spiritual Growth, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

O Come All Ye Faithful (and all ye faithless, too)

When the Nativity figures aren’t scattered throughout our house, I usually find that one of my children has set them up something like this.   Now if it were up to (anal) me, the people and myriad animals would be set up in a more orderly fashion and spread out a bit more, but there’sRead the whole post >>

· December 23, 2013 · Tagged With: Advent, Spiritual Dryness, Spiritual Growth · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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