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The Last Load of Laundry
There used to be a time when I had my family’s laundry situation under control. I was able to follow the schedule, put the clothes away and keep the bins from overflowing in a manner that felt natural...
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The Words Of A Father
I’m not sure if he knows it but every night while I am gathering the last things my family needs at the dinner table, I catch my husband lean over and whisper to our oldest son, Tell your mother, thank...
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Am I Doing Enough?
I know you know the days. The rising, eyes barely open at the first murmur of a child and one tiptoe in front of the other with them down the stairs as not to wake the others. You crack open your...
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Unraveling Grief
This very week, nineteen years ago I was riding in the front seat of our silver Town & Country minivan with my father manning the wheel. I stared out the window as we drove down Sycamore Creek...
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The Not-So-Runner-Girl
Once upon a time I would watch runners from my car and despise them. I know pastor’s wives aren’t supposed to despise others but I’m working on this. I promise. Little by little. I am human and God is...
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For My Kids On Mother’s Day
This week I have stood in the doorway to our home as the four of you rush in off the bus after school. The tiniest of you is not quite old enough to ride the bus home from school yet but hardly misses...
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Stop The Madness, It’s Summertime
I used to cry on the last day of school during my elementary days. And maybe I even got a little misty eyed as I walked out the front doors of Springboro High School and to my purple neon in the...
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Chore Monster
My oldest son has been asking for chores and allowance for about a year now. My husband and I have given them little responsibilities here and there. We paid him a quarter a toilet if he would wipe the...
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Unraveled Church
It feels strange to learn how to “do” church while your husband is in full time ministry. For some people it feels strange to “do” church at all and to others “doing church” feels like an old perfectly...
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What God Gives
Some may say, God gives you only what you can handle. But in my personal experience I have lived the exact opposite of the well known phrase. What God gives has always been so much more than I can...
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Unraveled Motherhood
Hello. I am glad you are here. I’d like to forward this post with the obvious message that I am not at all a baseball player and I know very little about the game. I am simply a fan of baseball but...
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Step Away From The Cookie Dough
Breathe to reset. Accept that I am at the end of myself. Depend on something Greater than my feelings. And step away from the cookie dough. I was thirty-five hours in with fifty-two to go of my...
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Changing from the Inside Out
This past year has taught me so much. So much more than I wanted when I asked God to change me from the inside out the last time it was time to resolve to walk better in the new year. My plan was to...
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One is Silver and the Other’s Gold
Years ago, I could not wait to turn eighteen, graduate and leave the childhood home I grew up in on Sycamore Creek Drive. I wanted a fresh start and I never wanted to look back. I had many happy...
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passionate. not terrible. passionate.
She sits there in her room, tiny plastic pieces of treasures, books, pink feather pens surround her, a crooked tiara on her head and streaks of orange marker are drawn on her leg from her kneecap to...
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Everything Smells Like Pee
A few months ago I spent an entire day scrubbing baseboards, cleaning walls, floors and bathrooms. One of our family favorite dinners was roasting in the oven I even had left a Kitchen Spice Yankee...
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when there isn’t much to say
Last night we sat in a booth adjacent to the high-topped bar table in the restaurant where we sat eleven years ago on the night when we were engaged. Then we were both getting to know each other and...
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I Miss Mayberry
Although I wanted to be a big city girl growing up, my story had me in a Mayberry kind of place during my youth. Everything was not in black and white by any means. My Mayberry was in technicolor with...
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What I Love About Sundays
Most of you know these things about me but for those of you who do not… it is important I catch you up on where I am in this chapter of the story God is writing for me. I have four young children. My...
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Am I Focused on the Smudges or the Sunshine?
Last week tucked in between rain and unseasonably cold temperatures we had two very pleasant days of warmth and sunshine in my little nook of the world. So often on these warm sunny days, I find myself...
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