Dear Weary Mom {My Favorite Spot}
Dear Weary Mom, Do you have a favorite spot in your home? A place where you can just sit or stand, and for that moment, all is well. My favorite spot is at my kitchen window, especially on a gray or rainy day in the spring. Let me tell you why I love this spot, [...]
In Order to Always Remember
Since switching to the new blog, I haven’t written as much about my son’s special needs. Recently, though, something very interesting has happened, and this post is mostly a way for me to continue to process through this, in order to always remember. Lately, as we’ve been talking to him, trying to help him remember [...]
A Great Cloud of Witnesses
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he [...]
Dear Weary Mom {Don’t Get Up. Not This Time.}
Dear Weary Mom, {Don’t get up. Not this time.} Juggling all that life throws at us is chaotic sometimes. We meet ourselves coming and going at the door. We spend time creating a schedule, watching it fill up, realizing we’d rather be doing other things. We show up at activities tired and stressed, probably having [...]
Spiritual Insights in Everyday Situations
I was sharing parenting stories with a friend recently, something I love to do. I love to hear what her kids are doing, and I love to share about what our kids are doing. My friend was telling me about something that had taken place between my daughter and her, and I was intrigued as [...]
Coming Alongside
Coming Alongside - The whole idea of helping each other, of physically coming alongside and working with one another in our weakest times, is scriptural. I love this passage that shows Aaron and Hur physically holding up Moses’ hands. Exodus 17:10-13 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur [...]
Until…
So often we view our lives in small chunks: school, college, working, family, mid-life, kids moving out, retirement. We move from day to day, until we reach the next segment. If that’s the way we’re living life, I’m here to tell us (yes, you and me) that we’re missing out. No, we’re not skipping over a segment of [...]
God Sightings
“God sightings” is how my children refer to them – those times when you have loved or served or given, as God might. Those times when you know that a thing was possible only because of God. Because God showed up - He intervened - and took what we had to offer and used it [...]
Persistence
Persistence. What do you think of when you read that word? What kind of images are conjured up in your mind? Do you view persistence in a positive or negative way? Persistence. Sometimes I think about a toddler, stuck in a loop of asking, “Why? Why? Why?” It’s frustrating, it’s annoying, but it’s how that [...]
5 Things to Know about the Mother of a Child with Autism, part 5
This has been such a beneficial series for me! I have learned a lot, and hope that this information has made it to some others who have also needed to read it! A big thanks to Amy Fenton Lee for letting me post a few of her well-researched findings! You can view part 5 of her [...]
