Learning to be OK with messy days

Learning to be OK with messy days

by | Jun 9, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood

Some days your kid spits at the preschool director. Some days your kid who is supposed to be showing off how very ready he is for preschool flings pencils instead and declares, “You bad lady!” to the woman you had hoped he’d impress. Some days you...
If you’re feeling lost

If you’re feeling lost

by | Jun 7, 2010 | Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Travel

I feel it in my hand. Gossamer fine, delicate thread. I hold it loosely to be sure I don’t snap it. I’m following it. Spiderweb-delicate strand, it leads me; it pulls me forward. Hand-over-hand I follow. Sometimes, in deep dark black nights I can’t...

What are 5 things God loves about you?

by | Jun 4, 2010 | Callings, Faith

So, we’ve talked bathing suits and insecurities. We’ve shared how joy in others comes from delighting first in who God has made us to be. Because, He made us each uniquely wonderful and wildly precious individuals. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully...
Learning to be OK with messy days

How to really enjoy other people

by | Jun 3, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood

Interesting, isn’t it, how many of us are afraid of our bathing suits? And then there are our jeans, our noses, our dress sizes, our cooking skills, our choices about what diapers to put on our kids, whether we will make our own baby food, our kids’ behavior, our...

You are more than your bathing suit

by | Jun 2, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood

My boys officially smell of summer. And to me summer smells like sunscreen. The ritual has begun – the spraying and lathering and rubbing into scalps of sweet smelling SPF 50  on blond hair and pale white bodies. {Sorry, boys, you may have got my blue eyes, but...