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Anytime my kids don't like something that I’ve said, or something that is happening, or something that needs to happen — they ask me "why??!!" and demand an explanation.  Sometimes the answers are easy — Such as, you need to eat your vegetables to have a healthy body.  Other times, the answers are too complex.  In those times, when I can't answer their "why", I ask them to remember who I am.  That I care for them deeply, that I've never lied to them, that I've always kept my promises.  I ask for their trust in navigating the unknown, by...

In February 2017 my marriage came to an end.  I'm not here to get into the details ... those are private and involve too many people for me to share.  But I will say, at the time I had a 6 month old and a 2 year old, and I was scared beyond belief.  I'd given up my career to be a stay-home-mom, as was my hope and dream.  I didn't want to give that up.  But I knew I couldn't depend on my children's father to support us when we weren't even together anymore.  I *certainly* couldn't afford to...

When I got married in 2009, we were blessed with several lovely sets of dishes as wedding gifts.  When our divorce was finalized in 2018, those dishes (along with some other wedding-gift-type things) became a source of pain and sadness for me.  I'd tell myself how silly it was, and yet, I couldn't quite shake the emotions I had every time I thought about how different my life was, the first time I ate off of that plate or drank from that mug. Nevertheless, parenting solo, I wasn't going to do something frivolous like buy myself new dishes when the...

I believe there are few lessons greater than these. Selah. Believe in the Lord our God with all your might, remember your purpose in the long dark night. Speak of gratitude when you want all the things, carry out your work with a heart that sings. Search for joy in the midst of plight, and just use love to combat spite. Focus on these things, believe what’s true ... wherever you go, God will always love you.

On the day of Valentine's, it's fun to talk about love -- one of my favourite conversations to have with my kids is "what does love look like?" Depending on the day, they tell me it's pink hearts, or maybe unicorns, or sometimes they say that you can't "see" feelings so love is invisible. To me, in truth, you CAN see love, and it's not glittery or pink. Here's what it looks like: - it looks like making heart pancakes when I'd rather sleep - it looks like breathing deep and praying when I'd rather get mad - it looks...