Fear

I will no longer allow fear to dictate my choices. I will not be bullied. I will stand tall and strong. When I don’t feel strong enough to face fear I will ask for someone to stand with me. I will move forward with joy filled anticipation of the journey ahead of me. When I [...]

Mother’s Day 2012

I want to write it down because every year I wonder how I felt the year before and I how I made it through. I can’t remember happy mother’s days. Well, when Christopher was in utero his cousin was born. How could I have been unhappy that day? I remember being excited for my own [...]

Mothering

She won’t look at me. This child. My child. I have loved her since the moment I knew about her. I didn’t carry her in my womb. I didn’t rock her to sleep or teach her to walk. My heart swelled with emotion when I saw her head full of dark hair make its way [...]

A Review and A Rant

I went to see the movie Blue Like Jazz last night. I couldn’t stop thinking about it when I went to bed. My thoughts were consumed with the movie and the body of Christ at large. My friend told me that a group of people walked out of the movie part way through. I bet [...]

New Beginnings

Well people, we have moved. We are no longer renting a space in someone else’s home. I am no longer in a home built by a man who no longer shares the home with me. I am renting. It’s a cute little white house with light green trim. There are bulbs of some sort popping [...]

Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

In April 2008 I created this little book. I took it out of a box today and remembered why I made it. I had to.  I was in a deep dark place in my marriage. I had children with needs I didn’t know how to meet. (I still do, actually.) I could barely make it [...]

I don’t wanna…

I don’t want to write. Not one little bit, but I know that writing helps me. It’s like when you have several knots in your yarn and you patiently sit down to watch a movie while un-knotting it. When it’s done you are now able to roll it into a tidy ball. I, however, cannot [...]

Books & Dreams & Living

This was my facebook status at 12:11 a.m.- I simply cannot express to you how much joy it brings me to unpack boxes of books. My place is actually starting to feel like a home now. A house without books just can’t be a proper home! Hello feisty Anne Shirley and thieving Bilbo. Wisdom with [...]

Will It Ever End?

A large part of my life these days consists of packing and/or unpacking boxes. Rearranging my life to fit into a small space. Turning book shelves into mini-pantries and now wondering where to put books. Mind you, I’ve gotten rid of tons of books, but it is very very important to me to have books [...]

Bring It On 2012

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