We just finished Spring Break and I can easily say it was the least relaxing we’ve ever had. We had grand plans to re-roof our house over break, which proved to be immensely more stressful than we’d anticipated. Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and snow...
I’m over at Catholic Sistas today, chatting about pregnancy, Lent, and all that suffering. Head over to read the rest and join the conversation! The forty days of Lent contrast pretty well with those forty weeks gestating a new little life. Both are long, rocky...
We celebrate 16 years of marriage today. Six kids and a whole lot of crazy later, I can say it’s been a fun ride, thus far. We married young and have grown up together in a lot of ways. We’ve made mistakes, done stupid thing, learned a ton, and...
Parenthood is a funny thing. Those sweet little babies don’t come with an instruction manual and a lot of the time, you’re really just winging it. My oldest is turning 15 today. Fifteen years ago, I walked into the hospital in southern Florida, they...
Social Media. We all have a love-hate relationship with it. It can provide so much good: inspiration, pray, uplifting ideas, laughs, and friendship. But the bad. It can suck us into a black hole of endless, fruitless comparison. It tends to show us only the happy, the...
“….He created us – in His image. He could have created us and plunked us down on barren land. But He didn’t. He chose to give us the most beautiful land His perfect imagination could create. In its wonder, it is vast and varying…” I am over at...
