My husband and I took a long walk the other night. Two days before, our temperatures were below freezing, but the air was slightly warmer on this …
how to be like God
Sometimes I sit in the quiet and imagine Eve walking in the cool of the morning with the God in whose image she was made and the man whose body was …
How Loving Yourself is Bananas
"I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. …
You Are Doing Great
Once upon a time, I had four children under five years old. In those days, some tiny person was always waking me up in the middle of the …
my favorite pre-pandemic memory is toilet paper
Oh, 2020, you crazy little year, we really didn't expect this much drama from you. Remember when we were so nervous about how we would weather …
mad respect for summer people
Greetings, fellow Summer Warriors! How is the fight for greatness going in 2019 for you? Are you killing it this year, achieving your epic summer …
the long road of motherhood
I spend most of my afternoons in the car, picking kids up and dropping them off all over town. If Uber wanted to create a better system for finding …
oy with the teenagers, already
No one prepared me for being a mom of teens. There are a million blogs and books and podcasts about the early years of parenting: the sleep …
cultural phenomenon: why moms hate the last weeks of school
Last August I fired myself as a middle school homeschooling teacher, and we enrolled our three oldest kids in public school. We didn't know if we …
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how to love teenagers
The early years of children are so noisy. Squawks, yells, tattling, and so many words about things like superheroes, dinosaurs, princesses, trains, …
all my feelings re: sending my kids to public school
For the last eight years, all of our kids have been homeschooled. It’s so weird. I didn’t even want to homeschool my kids when they were little. I …
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how to really succeed in life
Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the …