Category Archives: grace
Behind the Curtain of Motherhood
After having my second baby girl, I expected to love her immediately, just as I had with my first. I knew in my head that love would multiply as our family grew from three to four, but I was both surprised … Continue reading
Adjusting to life after Baby #2
Our newest baby girl is now 18 days old and life has been radically changed. For the first two weeks, my head was in a haze, a dark thick fog in which I was not quite present. We were up … Continue reading
Five Minute Friday: REGRET no more
Today, I’m writing with the Five Minute Friday community writing group, and this week’s word is Regret. If you’d like to join in, the linkup is here. As humans, we all probably have borne our share of regret. Regret that we … Continue reading
Love and Grace Times Two
“Every pregnancy is different,” so I’ve heard, and have now experienced. When pregnant with my first baby, everything was new and exciting, curious and magical, and also terrifying. Now 38 weeks into my second pregnancy, I sure don’t remember being … Continue reading
Learning Grace through Parenthood
A few weeks ago, I took my 17-month-old daughter to a bookstore to do some Christmas shopping. There, we were greeted with free Styrofoam cups full of spiced apple cider. I took a cup, and clearly my girl wanted a … Continue reading
No EXCUSE Necessary
Today I’m linking up with the Five Minute Friday community, writing for five minutes on a given prompt. This week’s word is EXCUSE. When my oldest niece, Eriah, was three years old, she had quite a vocabulary. You could … Continue reading
Desperately Seeking Love
I spent most of my life as a single, having now only been married for three years. In high school, I wondered what made other girls who always had a boyfriend different from me. Even into my twenties and early … Continue reading
Day 30/31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2017: REFINE
Day 30 Scrubbing clean sanding down filing rough edges. Softening harsh words molding hardened hearts distilling thoughts. Painful at times, uncomfortable but necessary for growth.
Day 29/31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2017: FOLLOW
Day 29 If one were to follow the track of my life, it would not be a stretch to say I’ve moved around a lot. I was born in Bethesda, MD, grew up for the first 16 years of my … Continue reading
Day 24/31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes 2017: REVISE
Day 24 Today, I decided to check out a park nearby that I’d heard about from a mom at MOPS last week. After a late start, I was strapping my daughter, Noelle, into her car seat about 30 minutes … Continue reading
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