(I'm participating in a blog circle. Please follow the link at the end of my blog! Thank you! ) Monday is the day. The day you cross the...

Dear Sam, In a few short weeks you will be in kindergarten. I don't know how this happened. It was just yesterday you were born, wasn...

Dear Lily, On the day you were born, I was scared. My life was changing faster that I could comprehend. You were no longer an idea, but a f...

The world is full of negative, nasty, cutting words. Words that injure and wound and hurt.  Gossip, venom, comparison, judgement. Envy and h...

It was one of those mornings... When the boy is sick and there's no sleep and the coffee isn't enough and my heart hurts for reasons...

Blurry and racing and profoundly happy. That's how these past few weeks with my children and husband have been. The power of togethernes...

I have this friend. She is beautiful and special and a magnificently thoughtful mother. She and I shared too few moments together when she l...

The tears started hard and fast in the carpool lane. A wave of sadness and loss that I didn't expect, had no inkling of, and couldn'...

Dear Lily, I remember hearing when I was pregnant that I would fall into this chasm of love the first time I saw you. I anticipated that, wa...

Most of us know the story of Jesus asking his disciples "Who do you say that I am?" We've read it and heard it in Sunday schoo...

I have been laid bare, stripped away of all that was me. Before what has happened and after what has been wrought are the remains of who I w...