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 …
how to have faith when life is different than you expectedRead More
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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this is why motherhood will make you crazy lovely
"If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I …
on being a revolutionary ordinary woman
We were hurrying out the door to meet my friend, Gina, so she could do me a HUUUGE favor and take some photos for me, and one of my boys lobbed this …
middle-aged mom life is a real thing
When I imagined myself as a mom, it was always as a young mom of very small children. It is a pure shock to me that that stage has ended in many ways …
god bless the christmas mamas, every one
Around here, Christmas looks something like this:It's Christmas lights and long lines and photo cards and apple cider and a last minute this and a …
an advent prayer for the weary parent’s heart
Morgan and I always seem to have these deep parenting talks in the dark of bedtime, when the day is over and dishes are done and we can rest at …
the hidden gift in motherhood
We have been at the pool almost every night for the past few days. Post-dinner swimming is my favorite part of summer living in Texas, where even …
