Nearly fifteen years ago on my wedding day, my dad and I stood behind the doors to my childhood church’s sanctuary. Just before the pastor’s wife opened the doors for our grand entrance, Dad raced into the nursery for a tissue. He wiped his eyes, and chuckled as he asked, “Does my hair look ok?” […]
Story Girl
Birthday Roundup
Thank you all for the kind messages on my birthday! Check the bottom of this post to see what you won 🙂 Everyone got something! Here’s a recap of my day in picture form: These were sitting on the kitchen table when I went to bed. It was sooo hard to sleep that night! This […]
Birthday Bash!
Today’s my birthday, but the presents are for YOU! Leave a comment on the bottom of this post to be entered to win. I have lots to give away! Facebook friends, please leave a comment here on the blog, not on Facebook to be entered! I will draw the winners Wednesday the 25th at 5 […]
Staying Steady: Housework
I never struggled with housework until I had kids. As someone once told me, “It’s not that I mind doing housework. I just mind doing it over, and over, and over, and over….” Housework is one of the most challenging jobs for me because the sense of completion lasts for such a short length of […]
Staying Steady: Run 1,000
Last week, I posted at Circle of Friends about how one of my goals for 2012 was to stay more consistently disciplined in all areas of my life, with new daily habits of discipline as opposed to catch-up habits. I have a pattern, as I do when I drive, to hit the gas, then coast, […]
Unlikely Motherhood
I confess, I was never the girl who dreamed about having babies. I didn’t have names picked out when I was a twelve, nor did I imagine a day I’d have a houseful of kids. I wasn’t around many babies in my childhood, and I didn’t babysit much in adolescence. The rare times I did […]