When the heaviness and reality of motherhood – and my failure at it – hit me once again and sleep eluded me I realized that I can’t do this. And that’s when I had a choice to make: do I accept the Grace offered so freely to me on a daily (sometimes minutely) basis or do I reject it and continue to …
Praying With Our Kids
One of the things I have spent a large portion of my time with Lord on my face begging for wisdom about is how to teach our kids to really love Him deeply, to follow hard after Him because of that love, and enter into an intimate, personal relationship with Him. I don’t want them to do things out of …
It Takes A Village {Guest Posting at The Better Mom}
As you may have jaloused if you’ve spent any time at all in my little corner of the bloggy world, community is a big deal for me. God is revealing more and more to me each day about the importance of truly sharing life together; offering and accepting support, and being willing to make ourselves vulnerable for the sake of …
Be Thou My Vision {Guest Posting at The Better Mom}
Have you ever heard a song that so spoke the desires of your heart you had to listen to it over and over again? Me, too. One of those songs for me is Be Thou My Vision. It has always spoken to me, even long before Ireland was ever even on the radar. Now that we live here, the depth …
It’s All About “The Baby” {Guest Posting at The Better Mom}
When our son was born, we thought we were doing a good job of balancing our time and attention among the three children. That is until our six year old wistfully sighed one afternoon, “I wish Isaac had been born first and I had been born last.” I’m delighted to be over at The Better Mom today discussing what helped …
What Came First? {Guest Posting at The Better Mom}
Have you ever found yourself talking to or treating your husband as though he is one of your children? Me, too. I’m guest posting today at The Better Mom, talking about how we can ensure we are a wife first, mom second. Its amazing how badly things get out of whack when we put our lives in any different order. …
Family Worship {Guest Posting at The Better Mom}
We have always known as parents that we were the ones ultimately responsible for teaching our kiddos to follow Jesus, and all that entails. To that end, we have spent the last several years tweaking and testing different means of family worship time, looking for ways to learn, grow, and enjoy the Lord together. Finally, some friends of ours introduced …
Help?! {Guest Posting at The Better Mom}
The pain was non-stop now as the contractions came one on top of another. I desperately needed to push, but the doctors said I couldn’t yet without risking damage to myself or the baby. I was really starting to rethink this whole “miracle of natural childbirth” thing, and I started to panic. I began to focus on the pain, fear, …
Summer in Ireland
Summer in Ireland is a glorious time. The soft heat of the summer sun, greens so brilliant they are blinding, big burly truckers driving around with soft serve ice cream cones like kids at Christmas. Yes, summer in Ireland is glorious…except when it’s not… This is a taste of the post I have today on The Better Mom. Please head …