the /grace/ between
The grace poured out between.
On Keeping Them Safe
(Trigger warning: Brief mention of suicide and self harm.) When I turned forty, I thought I said goodbye to a decade of being tired. Chuckbob wasn’t even a thought. COVID was months away. // I remember when my Second Son was just weeks old, and I was a fresh mom...
Where I Tell You About Hiding In The Library
For the better part of two years, I hid in the library. For thirty precious minutes in the midst of my day I would tarry there with the piles of books. It was a brief respite from the torture of eighth and ninth grade, the years when I would step off the bus in...
First Day … {G-Rated}.
Pray for me y’all. Today is the J Girl’s first day of public school. {She is in first grade}. I'm a wreck. Last year, I was homeschool FOR LIFE. Now - after pregnancy, a newborn, a two year old, an impending deployment, and more than a few tears {from both of us} -...
After … or, Grief AND Grace.
{Editor's Note: I'm writing specifically here of the loss of a child ... but beloved, as always, I tell you that Truth is unchanging, and while grief is universal, so too, is the grace. My memories here are of our my own wee babes in heaven, one gone home in 2005,...
Belong{ed}.
I write a lot about my children here. I write a lot about grace-about the Word made flesh in my story. But tonight, tonight I just want to write for sheer joy. To sketch a few pictures with my fleeting words. And I want to write a little about me. Let me tell you...
Redemption
Write something redemptive she says. And this firstborn queen of mine, she of the sweaty cloud of curls, and the outsized personality a mirror of my own ... We are warring these days and the only winners here are my sin and her tears, and oh how my heart is...
Pictures, and some food for the soul.
So I desperately wanted to spend wads of cash and hire a newborn photographer (this one, specifically) and have her take a billion photos of my precious babes. Alas, I cannot afford her, and so, you get the backyard staging/I have no professional training/amateur...
Family of Five … {Beautiful}.
{A link-up with the Gypsy Mama and her Friday Flash Mob}. Even though I take longer than five minutes, but today it was only because I was typing one handed on the iPhone while I nursed the babe. Today was our first day flying solo as a Family of Five....