When we welcomed our daughter home 6 years ago, my identity changed in ways I didn’t even realize. We walked into a room and they called me mom, for the very first time, without a nine-month maternity lead-up, and I got a new name. Adoption is a weird thing – you become an instant […]
In the last weeks of Kindergarten, our sweet girl came home from school talking about a different kind of “fire drill” they’d had at school. I was confused about what it was, as she tried to explain it. Turns out, it wasn’t a fire drill at all.
Their school had to do a lockdown drill. […]
In my early 20’s, I was a HUGE Elisabeth Elliott fan. HUGE. Through her, I discovered the principle of doing the next thing – and I’ve used that phrase so many times in the two decades since, in seasons of overwhelm. Just do the next right thing. Anyone who’s spent time with me has […]
In our house, we have a lot of kitchen counter conversations. The kind where you pull anything edible – a jar of pickles, a cheeseball, crackers, chocolate, summer sausage and a fruit tray – out of the fridge, and stand there, at the counter, in a messy kitchen, snacking while you solve the world’s […]
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