The Beginning of the Letting Go
I’ve had my heart ripped out of me this week. Ripped out, thrown on the floor, stomped on.
There’s no way around it.
This motherhood thing? It’s rough, people.
I’ve had my heart ripped out of me this week. Ripped out, thrown on the floor, stomped on.
There’s no way around it.
This motherhood thing? It’s rough, people.
Last February at the IF: Gathering conference in Austin, Texas, Ann Voskamp talked about the ways women compare themselves to other women, and then she dramatically broke a wooden ruler in half to illustrate how we all need to break our internal measuring sticks, the ones that say we come up short. I’ve thought about…
I’m linking up with my friend Kelly Smith at Mrs. Disciple today as part of her weekly #FridayFive. Join me over there for more great posts on motherhood. This is the first time I’ve written for a link-up, and as I pondered the prompt this week–Five for Mom–I wrestled with feeling like I probably don’t…
I love my Instagram feed. I know that for many moms, Pinterest and Instagram and Facebook can take a toll. All those perfectly serene scenes of home life, those beautiful rooms, those smiling children, those wonderfully plated meals. Too much scrolling of this kind at the end of a day of spilled milk and fighting…
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3) A few weeks ago, my family headed out for a mini-vacation at a resort town a few hours from home. It had been almost a year since we’d had any kind of a getaway, thanks to COVID-19. Our hotel had a…
Yesterday at five, E left for class, and I rushed to make a quick dinner of chicken quesadillas so I could get L outside on this first day. You know the day I mean – it’s the one when you first feel welcomed outside by everything from the sounds of the birds to the warmth…
Last week, a friend of mine shared a meme. It depicted an old man in front of a bingo board. Above him was a picture of a weather radar showing twin hurricanes hurtling across the Gulf of Mexico. “Who had double hurricanes on their 2020 Bingo card?” the caption read. Twenty-twenty has certainly felt like…
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I think it always feel like this … it’s why that love is so amazing.
Indeed, Wendi! Indeed! 🙂