Have you been running yourself ragged for too long, mom-friend? Have you been beating yourself up, berating your own tenancies and characteristics like a bootcamp sergeant? Are you feeling worn out, beat up and stomped on…mainly by your own doing? Perhaps, like me, you’re in a season of needing to be tender with yourself, extending grace and engaging in practices …
The Ache and Joy of the Wait {Rain for Roots Review + GIVEAWAY!}
***Thanks to all who entered. THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED and I have contacted the winners via email. *** Candles flicker in the low morning light, filling the air with their familiar spice and warmth. Coffee filled to the brim of my favorite-for-now mug scrounged from cupboards not mine is cradled in my hands as I will contentment to …
The Greatest Competition that Never Was
I sat in the waiting room babbling away to the woman next to me in the adorable outfit and impeccable hair with her babe laid to her breast. I don’t know why I felt the need to explain to the woman next to me why my baby was drinking from a bottle. I wanted her to know that I had …
A Prayer of Truths for When You Just Don’t Feel It
Hey, God. Yeah, it’s me again. … So… I’m tired. And to be honest, it doesn’t seem like You’re doing a whole lot to help out here, but I know my feelings can be liars. I feel like you’re off somewhere else, giving everyone else their miracles. I feel like when I talk to You, You just can’t hear it. …
An Expat’s Independence Day
We sit in our living room watching a YouTube video of fireworks while we reminisce about the Fourth of July we spent in America two years ago. Two years! Before that it had been four years since we had celebrated American Independence Day in America. And I never quite know how to feel about it. As Americans, we are often …
The Writer’s Battle
*This is a free-write exercise. I was wrestling with all kinds of thoughts and ideas and was getting nowhere. So, I sat down and wrote whatever came. Being a free write, I am publishing it unedited (except for spelling).Thanks to my friend Deborah for the idea of stepping away and just…writing* Words pound in heart and head, threatening to destroy …
When Your Dreams Disappear
“What are you longing for, deep down in the depths of your soul?…Use your imagination…go on, close you’re eyes and dream.” I stared at those words on the page in front of me and blinked hard. What are you longing for? Sleep!! Came the cry from my heart. Ha! Beyond that…what are your dreams? Your callings? What makes you come …
So…Where is this relationship going, anyway?
It’s funny the things that stick in your craw when you learn a new language. For some its pronunciations. For others its words in the new language that sound like swear words in their mother tongue (Irish had some real humdingers!). For me, one of the hardest things to adjust to with German is the use of formal and informal …
Ripples of Grace – A New Perspective on the Mommy Wars
The internet has been all a flutter recently over the arrival of the new royal baby. You would be hard pressed to visit any news website or social media outlet and not see something about the big news. And for each media outlet post, there has been every manner of remark about Kate herself, and the timing and fashion in which …
How City Life Has Changed My Extroverted Tendencies
I love people. I always have. My nickname in elementary school was Hug-a-bunch. Yeah. For me, the more people I’m around the better (within reason…huge, massive crowds like those found in Times Square on NYE freak me out), but in general give me people and I’m a happy camper. I enjoy doing workout videos in the comfort of my own …