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The Two Words That Can Transform Your Parenting
Exactly two years ago, I wrote this little post right after I looked out of my 9th-floor apartment window down at the tarps below. Tarps which were home to families who lived in the otherwise-empty piece of land next door.
That little post was my first to go "viral.". Since then, a couple of my other ...
Happy Mother’s Day to the Best of Them!
They were the generation without self-help books about purposeful parenting or about getting kids to listen and obey. They were the mothers who never stepped foot in a pre-natal yoga class or even heard the word "Lamaze." They were the moms who parented, back when the word “parent” was a noun and not a verb.
They ...
Moms, You Are Not Enough
“Mama, you got this. You are enough.” My heart sank when I read the last lines in an article on a leading website for Christian mothers. My heart sank, because it was my article.
The article was intended to encourage moms in the trenches of raising little ones and overwhelmed by trying to do it all. ...
A Different Kind of Beauty
Buy chart paper for Science project.
Make sure shoes are washed for sports day.
Plan menu for dinner guests. Buy ingredients. Send reminders.
Get volunteers for Sunday School.
These, and a hundred little thoughts, swarm around my mind every single day. And that’s not even counting work-related assignments.
Women’s minds have been aptly described as “spaghetti” – there’s a tangle ...
Take Off That Cape
Have you ever felt like there’s so much on your plate that you have little choice but to roll up your sleeves and get started pronto? Like, if you don’t shoot off that email right this moment or send that text off this exact second or douse that proverbial fire now, that life will fall apart?
I know I have.
Whether I ...
Loving the Ordinary…
It's the man's birthday today.
Since I wrote an "open letter" to the boy and the girl earlier, I figured it was the husband's turn - also I may have run out of gift ideas.
Here is an excerpt from the letter. When I stopped to think about it, we've been on a lot of adventures together. ...
Whatever You Do…
I walk into the bedroom and am greeted by an unmade bed. I’ve just returned from dropping the kids off at school, after giving them breakfast and packing the husband’s lunch dabba.
I take a deep breath, swallow my irritation and proceed to make the bed.
Inside my head, though, a monologue begins: “365 times. That’s how many ...
Dear Fellow Moms, What Are We Trying to Prove by Doing it All?
I used to tune into Chopped on Food Network almost every evening. I loved the outlandish ingredients that were pulled out of the mystery basket (Durian and sheep’s hooves, anyone?) and the chefs with their unbelievable knife skills and risotto-making superpowers.
In particular, I remember one episode, not for its culinary wonders or drama, bur for a snippet ...
A Letter To My Daughter On Her 9th Birthday
Hey missy girl,
When you saw that I’d written an open letter to your big brother on his ninth birthday, you were insistent I do the same for you when you turn nine.
That’s you in a nutshell, isn’t it, kid? You know what you want and you go for it. Even as we’re at the halfway ...
MEET SUSAN
