Let's be honest for a moment, ok? Motherhood is hard. Parenting is hard. It starts with sleepless nights and crying babies and morphs over the years to sleepless nights as you worry over out-late college students, sassy teenagers, and more laundry than you could ever have imagined. As moms, we have to manage it all. I'm not always good at it. If I ever manage to keep all the balls in the ...
Faith
Finding Comfort in the Fact God Knows – A Book Review
The day my husband was diagnosed with cancer, I didn't even go to the doctor with him. The thought that he might have cancer hadn't even crossed our minds. We had no clue the bump on his forehead was one of the rarest and most aggressive forms of skin cancer. We didn't know. After he came home and explained what the doctor had told him, we sat in our bedroom, hugging and crying, when his ...
His Only Son – A Movie Review
His faith was tested. Our hope was born. See His Only Son in theaters this Easter! Spring is such a busy time. With track season well underway and my daughter's high school graduation approaching, my family hurries from one event to the next, eating on the go and barely stopping to breathe. With Easter just around the corner, I really want us to slow down a bit and remember the ...
The Lord is My Banner
Today marks one year since I first heard the words “Merkel Cell Carcinoma” and the last time we woke up in the morning without the word “cancer” hanging over our heads. Because it has been. Every day of the last year has been lived in light of that one word. In my mind, I see it like a flag waving over us, a banner going before us. To be honest, though, it sometimes feels ...