by Molly Huggins | Nov 17, 2020 | Our Story, Thankful
2020 is the year no one saw coming. A gut-wrenching, life-altering cascade of events that no one has escaped from unscathed. Even as I started writing this, it was Election Day, your birth day, in a deeply divisive season of discord, an election that even now is...
by Molly Huggins | Jun 17, 2020 | Thankful
School is out for all of us now. Did you know I wept through the wave parade you threw for our children? I cried for the sacrifices you made and for what you lost this year as well. You may have missed out on Field days and sticky goodbyes and end of year parties and...
by Molly Huggins | Feb 20, 2018 | Photos, Thankful, Wee Man
Editor’s Note: My mother asked me if my blog was dead … it’s not, but it’s been a season of sowing my words in other places (Missionary Mama, (in)courage, and I hung out my shingle as a freelance writer). Most nights when I come back here I am...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 15, 2017 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Thankful
We’d been married 205 days when my body failed my first (un)born. We’d been apart for 148 of those days. My soldier left in the fall, in the brilliance of the dying leaves. He left, and I was pregnant and blissfully naive in the way you can only be when you...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 24, 2017 | Mommy Heart, Photos, Thankful, The Dailies
We went bouldering on Friday. Accidentally, because that’s how I fall headlong through our life these wild and wooly days. Second son shouted from the top of every rock, “It’s so beautiful up here!” And insisted on winking at me in almost every...
by Molly Huggins | May 14, 2017 | Husband, Mommy Heart, Thankful
(In the space of two short weeks, we’ve celebrated my husband’s birthday, our 12th anniversary, and Mother’s Day. This felt right today, to honor my mother-in-law the way she honors us. Don’t worry, I love my mom too – you’ll learn...
