I do not cry easily. But once I do cry, I need to just shut it down for the day. After one cry, I will tear up over anything for the rest of the day: a text from my Mimi, guilt over not being a better mom, my dying houseplants, an-y-thing. So when I’m stuck in a melancholic funk, I…
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Exercising in the Margins Have you ever been so busy that you feel like you don’t have time to think, let alone exercise? Me too. And while I don’t like being busy, I do like that life has seasons. I love that God designed nature and our lives to flow in seasons. Related: The Sushi Season of Life “For everything…
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The Best Family Devotional for Your Family This is the third post in our series of the best devotionals. If you missed The Best Devotionals for Girls or The Best Devotionals for Boys, be sure to go back and check them out! Confession time. I sometimes struggle to remember to make sure all four of my kids brush their teeth…
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Three Steps to Make Mom Friends Like most people, I don’t like dieting. But there are several diets that actually make me feel better because they force me to put the right foods into my body instead of all the chocolate muffins like I want to. And like dieting, exercise is good for my body, and I hate doing it….
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9 Best Devotionals for Boys This is the second post in our series about the best devotionals. If you missed the first post, Best Devotionals for Girls, be sure to go back and check it out! Doing a devotional with my oldest daughter has been an easy and natural progression. She likes being read to at night. She enjoys chit-chatting…
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How to Stop Feeling Disappointed All the Time I am constantly disappointed, and it’s all my fault. You see, I’m not naturally a fun or optimistic person, so in my effort to not be Eyore, I try to think of all the good things. Related: I’m Not a Fun Mom and I Don’t Care And while this involves a lot…
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The Best Devotional for Girls As a public school teacher, I had parents come to me all the time wanting tips and tricks to get their kids to read. They were often desperate to make their child love reading. And I get it. All the studies show that people that read more are super humans or something. I’m not totally…
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Like most women, I struggle to say “no.” There have been times in my past when I’ve let myself get so overcommitted I thought I was going to lose my mind and be committed. It seems like there is something hardwired into women to make us want to say “yes” even when we know we shouldn’t – just ask…
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I love the story of Paul. If you’re not familiar with it, you should totally read Acts 9, but I’ll give you a brief rundown. Paul was a Pharisee and persecutor of Christians. He believed that the early Christians, the people who followed Jesus, were heretics. And since they were preaching heresy, it was Paul’s job to hunt them down…
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Last week while I was trying to cook dinner, my two-year-old climbed onto the back of the couch so that he could use a broom to sweep dust off of the ceiling fan. What could go wrong? Everything. In a moment of sheer exhaustion, I pulled out the iPad and let him watch two episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba. I…
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I’m Not a Fun Mom and I Don’t Care I am not a fun mom. And I’d be lying if I said that it was the four kids who sucked the fun out of me. I’ve never been fun. I was a very serious little girl, a melancholy teenager, and am now a mostly grumpy adult. When grocery shopping, strangers…
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