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 …
when john macarthur made me cry
Hi you guys, I wanted to tell you how ridiculously hilarious it is to me that I preached in church the same weekend the internet went crazy over the …
here’s to all the flukes and the impostors out there
Once upon a time I signed a book deal and wrote a manuscript and sent it off to my publisher. Writing over 60,000 words should feel like a lot of …
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where is the love we need most of all
I logged onto Facebook today and I can’t decide what to be most upset about— what’s happening in the world or what’s happening in our social …
how to have faith when life is different than you expected
Last week, our family spent a quick weekend in Tampa after spending the previous week at a conference in Orlando. I brought a special souvenir home …
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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 …
how can you know if you have what it takes?
Okay, guys, it's the last week of school for my kids. Every other school district in town has been out since the beginning of time, but my kids still …
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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what god expects from you
Raise your hand if your life feels crazy. This how many times I want to raise my hand for that one: On Saturday, our family had four baseball …
this is why hurricane frenzy and a gas shortage mean there is hope for us all
In the last few weeks, Texas has been an interesting/encouraging/challenging place to live. The drama started with Hurricane Harvey. We all ran to …
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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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