Sometimes I’ll look around a public place like a grocery store or an airport and I’ll see all these docile children, offering their sibling the last cookie in their snack bag or saying, “Yes, Mommy” when she asks them to hand over her iPhone where the child was quietly practicing her phonics. Meanwhile this isRead the whole post >>
You will never be this loved
This has been a good week. Busy, yes, but good. My schedule was comfortably full; I was able to get things accomplished without feeling like it was all too much. Of course, there are many days when I feel overextended and over-leveraged. There are moments when everyone needs my woman-power. Littles physically cling to meRead the whole post >>
Be Jesus’ Skin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta said, “I am God’s pencil, a tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes.” We are all God’s pencils no matter how He chooses to use our gifts and our lives to carry out His will. There have been too many times in my life when I haveRead the whole post >>
A place to sit and rest and remember
My husband was finally able to get in contact with the appropriate people, and we got permission to take one of our neighbor’s old chairs. Not long after, the girls got crazy (and messy) with some paint and turned a plastic chair into a piece of legacy art. Since our neighbor never married and diedRead the whole post >>
The Empty Chairs
When we first moved into our home a little less than two years ago, I wasn’t too fond of our neighbor’s plastic chairs. Sounds superficial, I know, but this was my husband and my first home, and I wanted everything to be perfect. The chairs were positioned right next to our driveway on a patchRead the whole post >>