He’s four years old and he just had his first Mother’s Day. I think I’m like most mothers. I’ve often worried that I’m not enough, don’t measure up and daily fall short. Many a day, I’ve carried guilt packed with inadequacy, torn between work and home, career and family. I’ve bought the lie that I have fallen short in the… Read More
Children will expose every single crack and crevice in your parenting and marriage… I am rather adept at finding humor in my parenting skills. I have to be, because I trip, stumble and fall a whole heck of a lot when it comes to my kids. In my world, motherhood is gritty, dirty and downright hilarious, if I didn’t laugh… Read More
“They called me monster,” Joel whispered with tears streaming down his face. My heart twisted and I was angry. Actually, it wasn’t anger, it was fury. And this fury wanted to be released to do bodily damage to some 7 year old students that had crushed my son. My sweet Joel was starting to realize how very different he looked…. Read More
I guess I should have seen the warning signs. Looking back they were whispered truths I chose to ignore. He was a college, All-American basketball player and I thought he was wildly handsome. When we first started dating I ignored the signals. Little things, like when we took a walk and he pointed out trees and plants and called them… Read More
With this blog, I’ve always felt the need to be honest and forthright about our adoptions. But there are times I feel like I walk a line between encouraging others to adopt and downright scaring them away from adoption. Today I want to be absolutely transparent about how I feel, but preface this post with the knowledge that I would… Read More
I’m about to post something very offensive and I might actually lose some friends. CATS kind of creep me out…. When I met my husband, I realized that we were on opposite ends of this CAT issue. I really thought this was no big deal. I mean really we agreed on so many important things, like child-raising, and church, and… Read More