It feels like I blinked and a year passed by. A year with probably fifteen half-finished blog posts, and nothing to show for words being published here.
- Category: Mom -
At a birthday celebration dinner the other day, Esmae pulled down a glass from the table, it hit the floor and shattered into a thousand tiny pieces causing the entire outdoor seating area to look at us and the man at the table next to us to grab Esmae to ensure she didn’t step on the glass. Tonight as I...
Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a part of a family where you are one of two children. Your mother has light hair and dark, denim blue eyes. Your father has sandy blonde hair and eyes as pure, clear blue as a summer sky. Your sister has hair so yellow it’s almost white, and eyes a shade directly...
Lately I’ve been in a funk. There’s been a lot going on around our house—the Lord is brewing up some changes that get me really excited and at the same time really overwhelmed. Do you ever feel like when your to-do list is growing, all you want to do is hole up and hide away? That’s me lately. I fill...
Oftentimes when I wake in the morning, my body begins to stir before my mind is ready to engage with the fact that it will have to remain alert for the next, oh, seventeen-ish hours. Generally, my body clock begins to sound around 5:15, and my body obeys whenever Esmae’s little cries start to carry down the hall and into...
One week. Seven Days. 168 hours. 10,080 minutes. This is how long we’ve had “X”, our new foster son. With his addition to our family, we now have three children under three...
Esmae is my sidekick. And by sidekick, I mean, pretty much everywhere I go, she goes. It’s definitely a love-hate thing. I’m sure all of you mamas out there know what I’m talking about here. I love that she loves me (seemingly) as much as I love her, but when I’d like to be gone for more than a few...
It’s Monday. The day most dread due to its’ inevitable role in requiring us to awake from our weekends away from the office or the classroom or the hospital or the shop or wherever you are. Not only is today Monday, it’s Halloween—a controversial holiday amongst the conservative Christian community. SO if you wonder where I stand on this...
Outside our back door there is a spider that is disgustingly huge. I’m talking half-dollar size. Surprisingly, I haven’t been seeing the spider as being disgusting, however, which is very unlike my squeamish, bug-fearing self. I take that back, I’m not afraid of all bugs. I think cool bugs like stick bugs and leaf bugs and caterpillars and grasshoppers are...
The sky today is as blue as blue as Esmae’s eyes—or her eyes as blue as today’s sky? Either way–woah. It’s gorgeous out. Not a lick of humidity—thank God, literally. Thanks to a helpful friend, I’m sitting at Starbucks getting my writing on here instead of at my home office; and by office I mean, my bed or my...
Hey All, I'm Lindsay. I'm here putting my heart out there for you to read and hopefully be encouraged by. This place here is my life--my parenting, my home, my Jesus, my thoughts about life. I can't wait to get to know you through this sweet and sacred place.