Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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A Space of Your Own

Join me over at Faith & Family LIVE! where I’m sharing tips on how to carve out a simple sanctuary in your home  – something I’m so glad I did in our new home. See you over there. Have a good week.

· August 16, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Homemaking · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Glimpses

I’ve had a few requests for more glimpses into our new nest and our new life (which is blessedly beginning to find a happy, good rhythm), so here goes (my flash went out for a few of the shots and I could not find our charger immediately, so forgive the grainy quality): This is myRead the whole post >>

· July 31, 2010 · Tagged With: Homemaking · Filed Under: Child 1, Child 2, Child 3, Photos

If You’re Happy and You (Should) Know It

This is how I had everything played out in my head. While my husband was across the country attending a conference for his new job, I would nest. After a few days of feverishly unpacking, covering our walls with photos and art, arranging and rearranging furniture, filling our pantry and fridge with food, we wouldRead the whole post >>

· July 21, 2010 · Tagged With: Gratitude, Homemaking, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog, Photos

Still Nesting

I’m not sure, but this may be the first time I have sat down other than to eat or to nurse Mary Elizabeth in the past three days. We don’t have Internet in our home yet so even if I hadn’t been unpacking box after box and sorting and resorting, I doubt I would haveRead the whole post >>

· July 9, 2010 · Tagged With: Homemaking · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

On the Move*

* For real this time! For those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed in a reader, this is the post you were supposed to read, but goofy, anal planner that I am inadvertently and prematurely published a version of this post when I was attempting to just schedule it. This morning we’ve gottenRead the whole post >>

· July 3, 2010 · Tagged With: Gratitude, Homemaking · Filed Under: Photos

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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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