Kate Wicker

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Good eats: What I’ve been feeding the fam lately

Whew. Life has been busy. How does any mom find time to blog? I don’t know how I used to do it so regularly. I really don’t. This has been one crazy summer. Summer break? Ha. More like the summer of stressful situations. But enough about that. I might vent one of these days butRead the whole post >>

· August 6, 2013 · Tagged With: Homemaking, Recipes · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

7 Quick Takes: The Chores, Snake Stew, & More Edition

— 1 — So I witnessed something strange the other day. I was unloading groceries from our minivan when a pickup truck came roaring down the street. Three large flags – including a rebel flag – were proudly pitched int the truck bed and were flailing in the wind. The tricked-out truck screeched to aRead the whole post >>

· May 25, 2012 · Tagged With: Glimpses Into Our Life, Gratitude, Homemaking, Mom Humor · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

7 Quick Takes: The Laughing Matters, Star Wars, Homeschooling Discernment, & More Edition

— 1 — One of my most essential survival tactics in the trenches of motherhood is keeping a sense of humor. I have a post entitled “Laughing Matters” over at What to Expect where I share a true-life story of how I ended up laughing when I probably should have been sniveling. Here’s a snippet:Read the whole post >>

· January 13, 2012 · Tagged With: Body Image, Homemaking, Homeschooling, Madeline, Sleep (Or Lack Thereof), Sugar & Spice · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

An Advent Tea

Yesterday the girls and I hosted our inaugural Advent tea. We opened our home – and our hearts – to some of our good homeschooling friends, including one who traveled over an hour to be with us. I could not have asked for a more perfect day. We ended up having 13 ladies join us,Read the whole post >>

· December 6, 2011 · Tagged With: Advent, Homemaking, Living the Liturgical Year, Recipes · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Yarn Along: Progress Not Perfection

Well, it’s a start. So I went ahead and picked up my knitting needles again. They’d been gathering dust, along with colorful skeins of yarn, in a basket in the corner of my closet for months and months. I used to knit fairly often but never very well. When I was pregnant with my firstRead the whole post >>

· July 13, 2011 · Tagged With: Homemaking, Knitting, Little Joys, Motherhood, Perfectionism, Yarn Along · 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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