If there is one steady plot line in every family story, it’s this: just when you think you’ve got things figured out, everything changes. In fact, once we become parents, it seems like the changes just don’t stop. Babies become toddlers. Toddlers become teenagers. Teenagers become young adults who get married and start families of…
Summertime at our house means lots of packing and unpacking of suitcases. We love to travel. Weekend getaways. Cross-country adventures. Even the occasional journey to another country. And all of our traveling means we’ve become pretty good at figuring out what to bring. We use checklists. We plan our activities and carefully consider what clothing…
Being a beginner at anything can cause us to worry that we’re not good enough. That someone else is probably more qualified and we should step aside. But everyone worries about not being good enough. And that voice inside your head – the one saying you’re too old or will look silly, make too many…
The thought of starting something new has always filled me with joy and excitement. That is when the “something new” has been my idea. Not so much when the new thing or season or situation happens to me versus because of me. In this second half-season of life, I’m finding myself heading into new territory that’s a mixture of…
We can’t move forward if we keep looking back. Seems pretty obvious, right? But some things make it hard to stop trying to catch a glimpse of days gone by in the rearview mirror. For me, it’s having kids that have grown and launched into the world (Yes, praise the Lord! But golly, I miss…
September is always a time of new beginnings at my house. A new school year, the start of new projects, the first talk of planning for upcoming holidays and winter travel. But the first week of September this year brought so many changes for our family that my world looks entirely different than it did…
