Those first few nights of being a mother, I set my alarm for every four hours out, full of paranoid panic that if I didn’t, my baby would starve while I slept, zombie-like, in various stages of new parenthood dreams. My own mother, upon hearing of this particular branch of insanity, had to reassure me …
When I was still young and single and slowly wising up about the Truths of Life, I stumbled across a life-changing personal revelation after pondering whether or not I should break up with my then-boyfriend. My thought process went something like the following: There isn’t really anything wrong with [Boyfriend]. There’s not really anything seriously …
Today has been one of Those Days. You know the ones I mean—the one where from the get go, you feel like you’re failing in general at this thing known as Adulthood and Life in General (or at the very least scraping by with perhaps a D+). And then things pile on top of that …
I’ve long since thought that our society has a bit of a superhero complex—not only are superhero movies bigger and more popular than ever, but I’ve noticed that even for us “regular humans,” we’re often expected to be “superheroes” in the sense that we put this pressure on ourselves to do everything (and do it amazingly …
Today my Sunday schedule was totally thrown off (thanks to my calling, or volunteer work, at my church). Instead of attending choir practice in the morning and church for 3 hours in the afternoon, I went to church meetings from 9-12 and spent the afternoon at home while my husband was attending our regular meetings …
I made a comment today that pregnancy has made me feel like a completely different person–one I’ve never met before, and one I’m definitely not used to. If you had asked me before to describe myself in 3 words, one word that I would ALWAYS include on the list would be “motivated.” Pregnancy has changed …
As the year grows ever closer to its end, I inevitably find myself reflecting on the past twelve months. It’s certainly been a packed year full of its usual ups and downs, but I think that this year—more than any other year—I have learned the following great and valuable truth that will forever impact the way I …
While the rest of our holiday weekend hasn’t exactly been as magical as planned (for starters, our heater blew out last night and we have been freezing all day, hence the Matt-burrowing-into-his-coat picture above), I did have the chance to get started on this week’s To-Be List. Can I share something pretty miraculous first? So …
