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Hi there. It's been a while. I haven't been able to keep up with blogging. I've been wiping snotty noses and nursing fevers and cleaning...

The past few months have been rough. In my transition back to being a working mom, I feel like I’m falling short everywhere. I feel like...

I sat down to do a family devotional. One toddler kept interrupting me to request milk and the the other toddler whined about not being...

I'm not a perfect mom. It's okay, but it's not okay. And I'm living in that tension. Sometimes I lose my patience. Sometimes I raise my...

It's summertime and life is in disarray. The summer season is always a time of great upheaval. Schedules are upended. Routines are...

The wild waves of motherhood have tossed me around for twelve years. Problems have come and gone like the rising and falling tide....

No one prepares you for how big your first child will seem after you have your second. I was shocked and surprised when my first baby...

After suffering for a year with debilitating postpartum anxiety and panic attacks, out of my frustration, I asked God, "Why are you...

I'm two years postpartum and I still haven't lost the baby weight. Looking in the mirror, I see the folds of my stretched belly pouring...

As I was wheeled out of the hospital with our first newborn baby, I felt overwhelmed by the responsibility. This fragile little baby was...

The summer after my sophomore year of college, I was stunned to see two pink lines appear on the pregnancy test I had nervously taken....

By the grace of God, our 3rd year of homeschooling is complete! ✅ I thought homeschooling would be like four ducks in a neat row,...

Mental illness can feel like walking around in darkness. Sometimes I'm walking in the thick of it, other times it's looming in the...

When my head hits the pillow each night, my mind fills up with all the mistakes I've made that day, all the ways I've fallen short, and...

The toddlers have been taking turns waking me up at night. One roams the house around 1am, calling for "mom!" with a high fever. The...

The day I had my third child was the day my husband joined a new company. While I was in the recovery room after surgery, holding our...

When I found out I was pregnant with my fourth child, I was thrilled. It was a wonderful surprise. But then I thought about the birth. I...

After my fourth child was born, I suffered from severe anxiety and a postpartum panic disorder. I had numerous panic attacks, sudden...

It took almost a month to heal after my third c-section. It had never taken so long. I just wanted to get back to my normal self and my...