by Molly Huggins | Feb 19, 2015 | Hope, Mommy Heart, Photos, Wee Man
(Editor’s note: Fair Trade Friday will return next week. The birthday trumps it.) Dear Wee Man, on the occasion of your fourth birthday. You know, it took us twelve hours to name you. We had two boy names and two girl names ready-and couldn’t choose among...
by Molly Huggins | Feb 11, 2015 | Aha Moments, Hope, Mommy Heart, Photos, Thankful, The Dailies
(It’s my Five Minute Friday on Wednesday, y’all). KEEP. It’s just before midnight and Second Son has been squalling in his bed, inconsolable and ANGRY at being awake, punching me when I attempt to comfort him. I’m sprawled across my covers,...
by Molly Huggins | Dec 15, 2014 | Christmas, deployment, Fear, Hope, Photos
I love Christmas. Sometimes I talk about Mary. Once, I talked about shepherds (one of my favorites). Two years ago, I told you about Second Son. Last year, I talked about how Christmas was hard. The kids watched a lot of television. I mentioned Jesus a few times...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 12, 2014 | Aha Moments, Faith, Jamester, Photos
If you’ve come here from a link, I republished this here … I’d love for you to read it. We spilled out onto the beach overflowing with umbrellas, buckets, chairs, and all the detritus that comes along with a family of five setting up camp in the...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 9, 2014 | Jamester, Mommy Heart, Photos, The Dailies
To my best girl … on {or about } your seventh birthday. I prayed about this letter … I couldn’t even write it on your actual birthday because it is overwhelming to think of all the words I want to say to you. I could talk about being beautiful on the...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 4, 2014 | Aha Moments, Bug, Mommy Heart, Photos
Sometimes, not very often, but on nights like tonight, after we took a bedtime selfie – with two stinky boy-children draped across my legs and the pungent odor of J Girl’s feet wafting past my nose – I think about my first baby. My sweet first child whose...
