Girlfriends

25 Apr 2013

The safe place that every woman needs

in (in)courage, (in)RL, Cheering for you, Girlfriends

This is for the hurt women. The wish-they-had-sisters women. The why-wasn’t-I-invited women. This is for the girlfriends and heart friends and long distance friends and miss-my-friends friends. This is for the women who love long afternoons catching up and slow Saturdays on the sofa splitting the last brownie, the first story, the hard memory. This is for the sisterhood, the motherhood, the neighborhood, the misunderstood. This is for the places that got broken by the friends who wouldn’t forgive, couldn’t keep reading…

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09 Apr 2013

On being a mother and a daughter {A Freefall to Fly giveaway}

in Blogging, Callings, Girlfriends, Giveaways

I met her in a hotel lobby at the MOPS Convention. We walked and talked between fetching bags and sorting out check-ins and standing stranded between hundreds of people pouring out our stories as quick as our stumbling tongues could get to them. Some women are your sisters whether you’ve known them five minutes or five years. Rebekah Lyons is that kind of women to me. We stood clutching our bags and sharing about the challenge to stay. To stay keep reading…

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26 Mar 2013

When last did you get together with girlfriends?

in (in)courage, (in)RL, Blogging, Cheering for you, Girlfriends

Last night the only thing that stood between me and the desire to lock my children in their bedroom indefinitely was a heaping bowl of chocolate ice cream with sprinkles AND chocolate sauce. The kind that gets hard and crackly when you put it on the ice cream. They kept popping up out of bed long after they should have been asleep and me and the ice cream, we barricaded ourselves in the bedroom to wait for Pete to get keep reading…

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12 Mar 2013

Being brave enough to be un-fine

in Cheering for you, Faith, Girlfriends, Marriage, Motherhood

This one’s for Natalie. Who wrote to me after yesterday’s post. The one about how there’s no such thing as perfect people. But maybe it’s for you too? She reminded me how hard it is to crack open the doors of our lives to other people, not just the doors of our messy homes. How we get so used to being neatly packaged people and stories and families that we can forget how to be anything but “fine” when someone keep reading…

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11 Mar 2013

There’s no such thing as perfect hospitality or perfect people

in Cheering for you, Girlfriends

Real is always more interesting than perfect

Sunday afternoons are messy at our house. And I like them that way. We’ve usually let the weekend play around us with all its Legos and dolls and light sabers and blanket forts and left over pizza. We’ve let the dishes pile up and a pile of well, everything really, accumulate in the boys’ room. At least one of our children is wearing only underpants. And Pete and I will have napped and then dragged our bed heads up and keep reading…

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