Three months after our wedding, my husband lost his job. And for nearly a year, in the most expensive city in the US, we went through one of the toughest financial hardships we would face. While that season certainly helped shape our faith in ways we wouldn’t forget,...
I’ve been a mother for ten years now, but the day set aside to honor all mothers everywhere still doesn’t feel like my holiday. I remember, as a teenager, and later as a young adult, trying to figure out what to do for my own mom. Because this was, and in some ways...
After holding off as long as I could, I recently became a soccer mom. Our oldest kids, now 7 and 5, had done a little soccer skills program on weekday mornings, but I knew that once we jumped into Saturday morning sports commitments, we were in for life. Or, at least...
I have two sons born 22 months apart. They are sandwiched between two sisters, all four born within seven years. Ours was a busy, noisy, chaotic household for about two decades as they grew up and then launched into independence. Our little boys were great playmates...
Back in the late ‘90s, I drove my four kids around in a giant custom van. You know, the kind that is almost tall enough to stand in, with screen windows and reclining captain's seats in the back? We debated, trying to decide if it was worth our ‘cool’ reputation (like...
The last six months of life have sucked. Can you use that word on a Christian blog? I hope you're okay with it because I don't know a more eloquent way to describe what I've experienced. I suspect that you've also had some sucky months at one time or another, and you...