If you have kids, do they have daily or weekly chores? Do you ever feel frustrated over managing these chores (when what we really hope is that they’ll just do them without being asked, prompted, or prodded)? Do you remember having daily or weekly chores growing up? To be quite honest, I can’t remember […]
Category: Motherhood
Motherhood: Preparing a People
There are many things I need to be reminded of every day. But, I do not need to be reminded of what needs to be done, what is undone, or what never got done. I see it. Too much of it. I see it much too easily. I see the speck of dirt on the […]
10 Times My Heart Broke and Loved You in Your Motherhood
Expecting. What does that word even mean? Expecting what? The obvious answer- when we’re talking about motherhood- is a baby. And everything we think comes with the baby. But what we aren’t expecting, what we can’t be expecting, is exactly that- everything that comes with a baby. We see a picture in our head, of […]
The Parenting Hills You Don’t Want to Die On, Part 3/3
(Alternatively titled: My Wrath for the Bath) Okay, now that you know I’m not big on fashion statements with my kids and I don’t believe in potty training…what else have I thrown out of my parenting repertoire? Baths. Maybe I’ve gone full blown insane, but if so, I don’t want to be sane on this […]
Idealizing Motherhood
This week I was reminiscing, back to days in my late teens and early twenties. I would rise early, way before my 8 AM class just so I could try to be first to the quiet study room on the dorm hall– to sit read the Word, then study for any exams I had coming […]