Ditch Your Spiritual Mentor
The weather in West Texas this December has been insane. It was 78 degrees on Christmas day. We’ve had a couple of cold days, but they haven’t been cold enough or lasted long enough to send the wasps and bees away. While in town on Wednesday with our foster-love, my mommy helper, Miss Bobbi texted…
“Natural” Childbirth: Anniversary Edition
I am old. This is what the new batch of our babies have to look forward to. They have an old mom. And she’s way behind the times. They will to go school with kids that were birthed into swimming pools… In their living rooms! Y’all can’t fathom, this will be a generation of children…
Dear New Year Mom: FEAR NOT 2017
I know. Me too. What is this elusive, invisible time line lurking days away, where all of the sudden I will be different than before the stroke of midnight? If time is of the essence, why am I marginally out of time? Very little makes sense in my world. While trying to make dinner I…
Grace in Chains: Freedom in Christ is Yours
Grace in Chains: Freedom in Christ is Yours The truth was, I was in chains, I was in bondage to the law. No, I didn’t know about Grace… I lived in chains Every generation has a title… I guess my original batch of four is the millennials. They get a bad rap, but so did…
Dear Christmas Mom, Maker of Magic
Dear Christmas Mom, Are you worn out by the season? Yeah, Me too. I know. Because we are the makers of magic. It is indeed the most wonderful time of the year… but moms get the reindeer booty-end, don’t we? And I know, good mommies don’t say such words. But tonight at dinner, I found myself…
Welcome to Crazy Town
I live with crazy people. At any given moment something weird happens. Recently I was at an appointment for one of my miniature residents, answering questions about her. When asked to describe the wee human, my end of the conversation sounded dubious: No she won’t eat anything cold, wet, or slimy. Yes, she prefers to eat…
Why Christians Are Worried…
Our oldest man-baby just joined the Marines, as a combat engineer. The fact that I typed that just now without having had a Xanax is proof there is a God… and He does in fact, move in mysterious ways. From the moment I first held John, the enemy went to work terrorizing me over the…
Heaven Scent
Baby smells aren’t always that pleasant. Johnson and Johnson may have very well cornered the market on making a baby smell better after a bath, dusting, and moisture lathering… but you can’t mimic the dearness of new life. For a moment, no matter your situation; mother of many, mother of none, mother of one, mother…
My Child Doesn’t Believe in God…
When our son Luke was 6 he asked if Santa was real. Luke was our 3rd child. His older brother and sister were already privy to the truth. So I knew he knew. I did the little bit about the real Saint Nick and why we do what we do. Yada. Yada. Yada. And Luke,…
The up-side of being down…
It is raining here again. This is a big deal. Although, we are still in dire need of more, it has been raining a lot. Things around here are looking lush and green. I heard an older gentleman saying he woke to frogs chirping, something he hadn’t heard since the mid 90’s. Come to think…