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How It All Ends It’s January first, the dawning of a new year. As has become our tradition we celebrated New Year’s Eve with a quiet...

Not As It Seems It’s December 2023 and Christmas is just around the corner. Such a mild winter, our kids were bemoaning the lack of snow...

A Good Start I haven’t known where to start with this. I think I just kept waiting for the resolution, the grand finale. I’ve been...

At the end of the day, home is a feeling not a place I begrudge what I just wrote above. I’ve been without a solid home of my own for...

I felt the women were being called home, what does it mean? Why have I shied away at posting this for so long when the truth raged in me...

Part 1, 2022: I walked slowly from our friends’ main house to the pool house, where my family was already tucked in. The bigger girls...

Where am I? That seems to always be the first thing I want to start with — I’m on my friend Jeni’s couch in her gorgeous, ultra-feminine,...

In late January Steve and I looked at each other and had to do a big check in. What are we doing? On our 15th rental, having spent our...

Fast forward nearly 6 weeks into this journey and I have yet to take that breath. That’s not entirely true, I have experienced moments of...

But wherever you go, there you are. Have you heard that expression? Though our geographical location has changed by some 4000 miles south...

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE; The saying itself denotes that something that is good cannot equal truth, doesn’t it? Or that we don’t believe that...

I remember once when I got my two dollar allowance (remember two dollar bills?!) and I promptly gave it to a man begging on the street....

2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...

It’s a hysterical start to our day, and not the good kind. Heavy emotions and a lot of questions that we’re not sure how to answer. Steve...

Sometimes after the girls are in bed I look through the photos on my phone and see them in the quiet of the moment I’m in, instead of the...

This experience doesn’t exist today. Not readily, not easily. Sure it still does for the few who are not willing to depart from what they...

I’ve had the beautiful distractions of house hunting and moving plus taking on a homeschooling rhythm, it’s given me a needed rest from...

Currently I’m sitting in my office — it’s not also a baby’s nursery, it’s not also a catch all for my kids extra stuff, it’s not either...

A couple weeks back I shared a post from my friend Sarah on Facebook, about the importance of encouraging our daughters (but all children...

I will never look back on this time and regret it. I won’t regret how much togetherness there was, how close we all were, how day upon...