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When the long goodbye feels too short.
This past July after many years battling Frontal Lobe Dementia we kissed my mom on this earth one final time… I got a phone call from my Stepfather on July 1st letting me know that mom had changed a bit…
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Can you Cease Striving?
Hello Friend, it has been awhile! How is it already April? How is Lent over and we are now in Holy week? The world is busy and loud my friends. I have felt more and more the need for quiet…
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Me First Feels Weird…but is it?
One of the hardest part of being a mom is that there is so much of my day I can’t control… I can’t control the babies sleep I can’t control the tantrums I can’t control when kids fight I can’t…
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He wants us to take a water break
As a mom I find it is rarely quiet in my house. I crave quiet at times, yet when it finally is quiet there is a awkward uncomfortableness because in so many ways we have been conditioned to always be…
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The gift of a name…
A beautiful memory worth sharing…. The Gifts in the Grief…( I wrote this back in 2019) I hope you don’t mind as we continue to share. Our little Stella is already working so much in our lives. Sharing to me…
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Some Anniversaries are sad…
Some Anniversaries are hard… Three years ago on this day I took my youngest two for our first ultrasound to see their new baby and hear the heartbeat…It was a sad day in our home to find she had passed……
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Somewhere in the middle of it all…
I have had so many things to ponder these past weeks of May. May is the month of Mothers…and my mom is currently declining from frontal lobe dementia. I talk about it here from time to time and on my…
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You can’t get it back…
It is mothers day and I feel the need to share something heavy I have been carrying for sometime that has really overtaken me today as we celebrate mothers day. It is a kind of grief that is hard to…
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Have you ever felt stuck in the start?
I have been talking for some time about writing a book. I have even started it. I have a title, an outline and the start of Chapter one…and then I just froze. Life got busy, hectic, chaotic, and I started…
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My Real Reel…
How’s this for a highlight reel of motherhood? The real reel…. There are seasons where you can’t keep up with it all. This is my kitchen. Every morning when I come home from drop off and believe it or not…