It's Saturday night, a few minutes past midnight, and I'm sitting in our dark living room wide-eyed and bushy tailed, unable to sleep. It sounds riveting, I know, but this restlessness is the kind that comes from a stomach bug that has been plaguing our family of 6, one-by-one, for the last 10 days. Tonight,… Continue reading Wild Night
Tag: motherhood
Trying Times and Raising Arrows
As our family continues to grow, we're almost always met with comments about today's society and the state this world is currently in. A lot of people are afraid to raise children in today's society, and rightfully so. This world is so broken, and everything has changed since my own childhood, not too long ago.… Continue reading Trying Times and Raising Arrows
Four Little Words
I'm in the deep, thick, murky waters of both motherhood and foster care. The usual tantrums and arguments and shoe-tying and snack wrangling that occupied my days has now been coupled with trauma-responses, food-insecurities and learning how to cope with great loss while forming new attachments. Today in church my husband and I stood up… Continue reading Four Little Words
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