Kate Wicker

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Advent & Christmas Books

Recently, I shared what we can learn spiritually from the Advent season during my monthly Relevant Radio Morning Air segment. You can listen to the conversation here. During our chat I mentioned some of our family’s favorite Advent and Christmas season books. One of my most treasured traditions – and one that doesn’t require hardlyRead the whole post >>

· December 18, 2018 · Tagged With: Advent, Books · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Why I love shopping at Aldi

I’ve been doing the majority of my grocery shopping at Aldi for almost a year now. I started shopping there in an effort to lower our monthly grocery budget, and boy, has it worked! I’ve nearly cut our monthly expenditure on groceries in half. I still occasionally shop at Trader Joe’s, Kroger, and The FreshRead the whole post >>

· December 19, 2017 · Tagged With: Advent, Spiritual Growth · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Why we need Advent

This Advent reflection below comes straight from Getting Past Perfect, but it seems fitting because I’ve seen so many people across social media lamenting that their Advent hasn’t gone exactly as they’d hoped. Are you feeling that way, too? Well, join the Advent Loser Club. In all seriousness, I have far too many blank pagesRead the whole post >>

· December 14, 2017 · Tagged With: Advent, Getting Past Perfect · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Kate update

I apologize for the radio silence around here. Actually, I don’t. Or I shouldn’t. I’m working on not feel guilty about things that really have nothing to do with my morality or my value as a human being, and frequent blogging (or blogging at all) just doesn’t fall into either of those categories. That said,Read the whole post >>

· November 16, 2017 · Tagged With: Advent, Getting Past Perfect, Motherhood, Natural Childbirth, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Advent Blessings!

I know I’ve been MIA from blogging and writing for my personal website for ages now. The reasons for my dearth of posts are many. First, I was feverishly working on my second book this past summer, which will be officially released on March 3rd, 2017. Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in theRead the whole post >>

· December 21, 2016 · Tagged With: Advent, Getting Past Perfect, Pregnancy, Tough Days · 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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