Parenting

"You are right. At 11 years old and 5 feet tall she is too big to be sitting in a shopping cart. But here's what you don't know..."

Am I doing my kids a disservice by always promising that everything will be okay, when very likely it won’t be?

"As I was putting the folders back in the file cabinet I noticed something... looking at the size of the folders shocked me."

"This all started as I stared at myself in the mirror one morning, wondering if I should look and feel THIS exhausted. I am a mother of 3..."

"It's been hell. I haven't slept. I haven't eaten. I can't do anything. I can't even leave his side."

"I feel overwhelmed lately. It’s the kind of overwhelmed that makes me want to sit and do nothing because I have no idea where to even start. It’s the kind of overwhelmed that makes the tears sting my eyes because I feel like such a failure in multiple areas of my life right now."

That’s when I saw the toy my child had placed in the baggage area. And that’s when she chose to question me, “What’s the problem, mom?”

I ask God not to spare them from trials but to sustain them through them.