This is a contributor post I wrote for the Portland Moms Blog. Read the entire article here. I’m gonna be honest. There are moments of each and every day when I do not feel like I’m good enough. The voices I allow in my head tell me that I will never be, have or do […]
How Motherhood Changes Our Girlfriendships – Contributor Post for Portland Moms Blog
This is a contributor post I wrote for the Portland Moms Blog. Read the entire article here. You know those friendships, the ones you had before the kids came along, that just don’t seem to work anymore? Maybe they’re not parents yet and don’t understand how your life has changed. Or perhaps they are mothers […]
Moving with Three Kids…Successfully, Part Four: Settling into Our New Home, a Giant Sigh of Relief and a Summary
This is part of the M2M Series, The Big Move from One House to Another with Three Kids…Successfully: A 4 Part Series. To read the other parts, please click here. I feel like I’ve been living this selling/buying/moving chaos for so long, I had to chronicle it for the sake of others…whether it is for sheer comical […]
Moving with Three Kids…Successfully, Part Three: A Journey with Negotiations, Paperwork and Boxes
This is part of the M2M Series, The Big Move from One House to Another with Three Kids…Successfully: A 4 Part Series. To read the other parts, please click here. I feel like I’ve been living this selling/buying/moving chaos for so long, I had to chronicle it for the sake of others…whether it is for sheer comical […]
Living in the Shadow of Being a Birth Mother – Guest Post for Portland Moms Blog
In honor of birth mother’s day on 5/9 and Mother’s Day on 5/10, I wrote a guest post for the Portland Moms Blog, for whom I hope to be regularly contributing in the future. I am a wife of ten years, and stay-at-home mother to three little ones under eight. From an outsider’s perspective, I […]
Moving with Three Kids…Successfully, Part Two: The Next Adventure = Finding the Right Home
This is part of the M2M Series, The Big Move from One House to Another with Three Kids…Successfully: A 4 Part Series. To read the other parts, please click here. I feel like I’ve been living this selling/buying/moving chaos for so long, I had to chronicle it for the sake of others…whether it is for sheer comical […]
Moving with Three Kids…Successfully, Part One: The looooooong Road to Selling
This is part of the M2M Series, Moving with Kids…Successfully: A 4 Part Series. To read the other parts, please click here. I feel like I’ve been living this selling/buying/moving chaos for so long, I had to chronicle it for the sake of others…whether it is for sheer comical entertainment or the remote possibility that […]
He Had Me At Thank You – Guest Post by Mary from Passage Through Grace
Motherhood is a story of opposites – of ups and downs, heartache and joy, hurry ups and slow downs as well as many beginnings followed by ends. Motherhood is a series of snapshots that blur together in fast forward until one day after you’ve blinked you realize your babies are taller than you and all […]
Discovering Grace in the Waiting
We seem to be always waiting for something in this life…waiting to grow up, waiting for a spouse, waiting for a baby, grandbaby, waiting to retire, etc. Each hour of each day for every year of our lives we wait in traffic, wait in line, wait to hear about a job, a decision, a prayer […]
Silent Grief – Aradhana’s Story
“Breathe. Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you.” – Nicholas Evans Heartache. Heartache is worse than any physical pain; unfortunately, time is its only healer. A lot of you may have first experienced heartache back in school or college. I have also had a fair share […]
