I had something different planned for my post today. But my heart wasn't in it. Instead, my heart is fixed on other things... Broken things, wounded things, forgotten things. Moments and words and feelings that won't surrender to the usual ...
This is me: What to expect when you start embracing your post-divorce identity.
With Lettie Lutz' voice still echoing in my head, I walked out of the theater into bright blue skies and warm sunlight holding the small, chubby hand of my three-year-old. My heart swelled with the satisfaction of taking in the ebullient music and ...
A Real, Magical Christmas
It was Christmas Eve. The little ones were in bed and snowflakes had begun to fall outside, the first time in weeks. I stood at our front window gazing out at their cadenced descent, illuminated by the glow of the colored bulbs on our roof line. ...
My Goal for 2017: Do Less by BEING more.
It was December 26th. After a day of happy noise and organized chaos, with the lovely scent of glazed ham, rice pudding, and cinnamon still lingering in the air from the day before, I stopped my dinner preparations for a few minutes to enjoy a ...
TGIF { Thank Goodness It’s Fall! }
Saturday night didn't end well for my guys. 24-23 for a last minute BYU loss? It was like our evening as a family began at an amusement park and ended up in a morgue. There were moans, groans, screams and yes, even tears. And then the house was ...
How a house becomes a HOME
I've decided that moving with a family of seven is pretty much like giving birth. Similar to the anticipation of a new baby in the home, we all greatly await the moving day, as if it is going to be akin to an elaborate vacation. Weeks before the ...
To Everything There Is a Season
A few days ago my oldest child had a dental exam after school. Let me repeat that. My oldest child had a dental exam after school. For anyone unfamiliar with the implications of that statement let me provide a pictorial representation of what ...
Boys and Beauty
One of the things I love about raising children is watching them handle new and different situations. I never quite know how they will respond to challenging and uncomfortable things. Sometimes, I confess, I shudder in their embarrassment with ...
