An Instagram page I follow posed this question. What is a homemaker? For a long time, the first image that I conjured when I head the word “homemaker” was that of a woman in the classic billowy 1950s skirt, her hair perfectly coiffed and an apron slung around her teeny tiny waist as she serves […]
Read More What is a Homemaker?Marriage is a huge undertaking. Parenting also can be challenging. But those things in combination with family blending? Phew, what an adventure! When I first started to date my now husband, there were many delicate issues we had to work around. While there are several resources for widows and widowers who are heading into Chapter […]
Read More Chapter TwoElection season is upon us. Tempers have been high all through 2020 and now it feels we are coming to a boiling point. I see it happen every election, but this year particularly, I have been exceptionally disappointed in the way opposing sides treat each other. I’m weary, folks. I’m tired of seeing “If you […]
Read More Outdoing Our Political OpponentsI 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 […]
Read More Little Red Riding Hood and Other Precocious DaughtersThis 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 […]
Read More Teaching from a Place of Rest (The Great Homeschool Experiment: Week 3)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 […]
Read More Crushing Fear, Worry, and Anxiety“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 […]
Read More Unity and 9/11August 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 […]
Read More Today was Supposed to be My Wedding DayToday 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 […]
Read More Showing Kids the Kingdom: Thoughts on Children’s ChurchSo 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 […]
Read More Disciples in Isolation
Becoming Still Waters 