Today is my birthday! I love getting older. I have absolutely zero qualms about pressing further into this decade. As my friend Jordyn said to me on my thirtieth birthday, and I haven’t forgotten: “I think a confident woman in her thirties is a thing to behold.” In that spirit, I would love to share with you these 32 things I know without doubt today, which I certainly didn’t know at 22, or even 29, at least not ... View Post
Every Time :: Part 3
Home again, for real. I couldn’t wait to see the girls, but halted abruptly halfway up our front walkway, filled with amazement. My mandevillas. The warm sun beamed down on the strong, exquisite, crimson flowers reaching beautifully for the heavens. Each individual plant must have grown a foot simply from standing up straight, out of the shadows. In a single day. The power of light. The Lord makes His face shine upon ... View Post
Every Time :: Part 2
If Friday was my evening of sorrow, then Saturday was the dawn of my rage. I admit that I held out a sliver of hope that maybe the worst wouldn’t happen and I’d get a miracle. But the heartbreaking physical evidence was progressively showing the contrary. Boy, did I pace my room in a fury. One miscarriage: Okay. I endured it. I prayed through it. I learned from it. I wrote about it. I trusted the Lord on that ... View Post
Every Time :: Part 1
I have to confess that I’ve wondered something ever since suffering a miscarriage between my two girls. Is a miscarriage any easier the second time, like after you’ve had a healthy baby to redeem that season of pain? Essentially, once you’ve walked through that grief before, if you are unlucky enough to one day face it again, is the anguish as gut-wrenching, severe? Or just to get right down to it: If, say, we ... View Post
Good Enough
My firstborn angel firecracker, Emerson Violet, turned FOUR on March 15. And to shamelessly turn to mush for a second, I cannot believe it. It’s wild to me, the passage of time, made visible in a small growing human. As Doug keeps saying, we’ve officially earned our undergraduate degrees in parenting, and what a true and cute way to put it, that sacred season we’ll never relive again. #4yearsdown #14togo #JK ... View Post
Identity Theft Arrest: A Testimony of Early Motherhood
I had the great privilege last week of sharing a bit of my faith story and mom journey with the table I’m currently leading at MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). How great is MOPS, by the way?! Hot coffee, cool moms, great speakers and five-diamond childcare. Sign me up every time. And I love this day every year, when the table leaders have the chance to step out, be vulnerable and talk about how we know Jesus. Where ... View Post