Little Red Riding Hood and Other Precocious Daughters

I have a very precocious daughter. I love her deeply. She is like a little mirror and sometimes that mirror shows good things. Other times it reminds me of the utter torment I put my mother through as a precocious daughter once upon a time. She is smart, sharp as a whip and often times […]

Teaching from a Place of Rest (The Great Homeschool Experiment: Week 3)

This week started out horrible. Not just cutesy “oh we got off on the wrong foot, but muddled through!” horrible. I’m talking “mind-blowing, gut puking, insomnia inducing, we’re never going to recover, all our attitudes need major readjustment” horrible. My kids have their own unique sets of issues. One has anxiety. One has ADHD and […]

Crushing Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

I cried myself to sleep last night, my body too exhausted to feel anything and my brain too racked with worry to think rationally. Everything was a swirling, dark spiral of fear, worry, and anxiety. What if I’m not enough? What if I’m a bad mom? What if I’m a bad wife? What if I’m […]

Grading, or The Great Homeschool Experiment: Week 2

Ready for more reflections? Week 2 is done and I’ve made some administrative changes! I entered this experiment thinking I didn’t need grades. How inhumane to grade a kindergartener! This period is just about learning to love learning! There’s no possible way to put that on a graded scale! Turns out it is possible to […]

Unity and 9/11

“Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.” 1 Corinthians 1:10 Does anybody else feel like they’re watching the church coming apart at […]

The Great Homeschool Experiment: Week 1

Week One of the Great Homeschool Experiment has been completed! There were ups and downs, but I ended every day feeling triumphant and exhausted. Here are some of my take-aways from the week. 1. Kids need routine, but readjusting to routine is brutal. My husband warned me of this. He’s a “real” teacher (I put […]

Today was Supposed to be My Wedding Day

August 15, 2020. Today was supposed to be my wedding day. Instead of wearing a white dress in a church and pledging to marry the man I love, I’m wearing a bikini on a beach and holding hands with my husband of four months. Now there’s a plot twist! My husband and I got married […]

Showing Kids the Kingdom: Thoughts on Children’s Church

Today at lunch, my girls asked me some very serious questions about something they saw on Sunday. “Mommy, why did you drink God’s blood?” “Why did you and Daddy eat that cracker?” “Why didn’t we eat it?” “Why was everyone so quiet?” “Is It because Jesus died? Why?” We had a great conversation over mac […]

Disciples in Isolation

So 2020… What a year, huh? Four months in and it’s been absolute insanity. Earthquakes, fire, war and rumours of war, grief and death in church bodies, financial struggles, and a global pandemic that has sewed fear and sickness through our communities. The world looks bleak and torn. Today is Good Friday, the day we […]

At The Appointed Time: Christmas Lessons on Trust

There are a few things my daughter is absolutely obsessed with… Elsa and horses are two of them. So when Disney decided to create the Water Nøkk in Frozen II, my kid lost her entire mind. All she would talk about was “the water horse.” All she wanted was the water horse. When she wasn’t […]