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 ...
Motherhood
Keeping it together while your spouse is away
When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband was routinely working several hours away and often had to stay overnight for meetings. It was just the two of us, so the distance was easy to manage until I found myself admitted to the hospital in preterm labor while he was on the road. Living in south Mississippi, I have several friends whose husbands work offshore, and I'm always amazed by ...
What’s Your Purpose? And why it matters….
Do you get bogged down by your problems and forget your purpose? I know I do! There is power in remembering our purpose... One day, right at 20 years ago, I was driving a beat-up old Peugeot up a winding hill in Nairobi, having a conversation with Henry Blackaby, the author of Experiencing God. The memory sticks in my mind for several reasons. First, I was driving ...
Why Your Kids Need to See an Eye Doctor
*This post is sponsored by Belle Vue Specialty Eye Care. If I take off my glasses, all I see is colors and vague shapes. Anything more than a foot away from my face isn't clear, and it hasn't been since I was about eleven years old. Around that age, my older sister and I both had a drastic change in vision. My sister's vision is much worse than mine. One week she ...