This morning I found myself choked suddenly with tears when “Away in a Manger” began to play on my Pandora Christmas channel. There were many tangled reasons behind those tears.  As I bent over a sink full of dishes and wept this morning, that simple, child-like song seemed to be the connecting point for so […]

It has been a strange thing, announcing this 5th pregnancy. Of course, I’ve dealt with the shock of many, amazed that we would dare have a 5th.  But I expected this and dealt with my fair share of it when I announced number 4. Nope, the worst of it all I created for myself.  In […]

LISTEN ON ITUNES LISTEN ON ANDROID Hey there! Today’s episode is short and sweet and gets at one of my serious struggle as a mom. It often feels like I am on an endless (and fruitless) quest to make my life at home raising kids just a little bit better.  Maybe if we stayed home […]

Housework is an unavoidable part of many of our days. It is something we dread and put off and force ourselves to just get through. But, housework can be much more than that. It is a call to an opportunity for Holiness. Although I struggle with this as well, I worked hard to research and pray […]