life of a homeschool mom & pastors wife who is working on her first novel
So I was in the depths of despair at the airport gate. I had to calm down and start figuring out what I was going to do next. Many phone calls later I found myself sitting in the airport I was supposed to be flying out of waiting for my sister to pick me up …
Continue reading ‘God Sightings’ Amidst Travel Drama: Part 2
If you missed the blog post over at RMMB, please follow the link below. Not Just In Our Head: Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness I felt Alicia's story needed to be shared and she's been wanting to share it too. She regularly posts updates on her facebook about HG awareness and updates about her daughter who is …
As I re-read my last blog post I now feel even more convicted about what happened during my trip (not so much during actually, more just the travel days). I was preachin' to my own choir. Most of my problems on this adventure were still quite small in the grand scope of things but it …
Continue reading ‘God Sightings’ Amidst Travel Drama: Part 1
What if the plane crashes and I die? Lots of people travel for work all the time, I'll be fine. I better just make sure things are in order, just in case though. Oh no, what if something bad happens to the kids while I'm gone. I will feel so guilty. What should I pack? …
Continue reading 7 Truths I Rehearse to Avoid FOMO and Anxiety
If you missed my recent blog post about this announcement that's okay. I recently decided that I was ready to finish a novel I started writing when I was 15. It's been tucked away in the dusty old files of an external hard-drive for the last decade or so of my life and after one …
If I'm honest, I don't really like Christian movies. I've seen a few, and while I usually get something personal out of it and I find it edifying for my own faith, I still cringe every time I watch one. There's just something about the forced message, or the acting, that diminishes the messages power. …
Goodbye 20's. Instead of listing 30 things I've learned in 30 years or something typical like that I instead want to look back on the last decade and say goodbye. I want to pause and reflect on where God has brought me these last ten years. So here are 20 things I did in my …
Continue reading 20 Things I Did In My 20s (plus an announcement!)
His pencil poked my knee. I wrote "Hi" on his notebook. He wrote something back on mine. We sat near the front of the lecture hall but were far enough back that we could easily get away with flirting during class. I'm ashamed to say I did not do very well in that class. I …
