“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19 NIV) I always like really good definitions, so I looked up what it means to ponder. Merriam-Webster defines ponder as, “to weigh in the mind, think about, or reflect on.” Another definition I read, from Oxford Languages, stated that ponder…
You’ve probably heard the cliché that motherhood is a gift—and it is, I’ve learned, but not always in the way I expected. Sometimes it feels like the Christmas I got socks and a toothbrush in my stocking. If it’s such a gift, why do I feel so bad at it? Is it this hard because…
After a grueling season of working twelve-hour days, seven days a week, my husband’s time off finally arrived! When you work in football, you do not have the freedom to choose your vacation time, but you do get almost four glorious weeks off each summer. We had made our plans, filling these long-anticipated days with…
Have you ever had a moment when you thought to yourself, That was a total God thing?” Or perhaps something that seemed like a coincidence but was too perfectly timed to be just a coincidence? You knew deep down God was working–it was a God Moment! My family recently had one of these. We took…
Well, mamas, here we go again. Another school year with so many unknowns. Last year was a year unlike any other in known educational history. Our kids and families endured challenges we couldn’t even dream up twenty or thirty years ago when we were in school. This past year, many of us sent our kids…
I am the proud mom of three kids: two girls aged fifteen and thirteen, and one nine-year-old boy. I always dreamt of becoming a mom and am grateful God entrusted these three to me and my husband. While this post will explore some of my learnings about parenting teens, I fully acknowledge how early it…