by Molly Huggins | Aug 21, 2013 | Aha Moments, Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope
We are promised to each other for a little more than eight years now – and in those three thousand and ten days, {give or take a few}, we’ve spent a little less than half of them whole worlds apart. The separation of days makes riches of the extraordinary...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 15, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Hope, Husband, Our Story, Uncategorized
{Preamble: I’m feeling a little raw tonight. I mean, after eight plus years of marriage, four deployments, six moves, five pregnancies, three kids, I picked now to start comfort eating. Maybe it was adding Second Son. Maybe it’s the impending deployment staring me in...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 9, 2013 | Faith
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 tears,...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 3, 2013 | Faith, Grief, Hope, Lives We Love
{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...
by Molly Huggins | Jul 17, 2013 | Faith, Jamester, Mommy Heart
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...
by Molly Huggins | Jul 12, 2013 | Aha Moments, Army Life, Faith, Fear, Husband, Thankful
My eyes linger on the toys strewn across the room and I think I must take these moments, take the time now and spend them in clean rooms, on scrubbing floors and wiping the toothpaste marks off the counter in the bathroom. I must erase the evidence of the three tiny...