Last night I needed to write a blog post to you, but instead I sat and snuggled on the couch with my man, and we watched a few inspiring YouTube videos. To his credit (and it’s his birthday today, by the way), he endured not one but two wedding proposal videos, with my head tucked into his shoulder,…
Because I talked to a young mom recently about stress, with the home schooling and the four little kids and the new puppy, I’m going to be brave enough to tell you there have been times in the last five days when I’ve thought I might fly apart from stress. I’ve been enjoying everything I’ve…
Since being hired to be a Spanish teacher, I have begun a weekly routine of having a small panic attack every Sunday night, in which I verbalize to Matt all the ways I don’t feel like I’m a good teacher. I tell him on the couch. I tell him in the kitchen. I tell him…
I used to set my alarm. When it went off, I would quietly grab my Bible and slip out into the hallway so I wouldn’t wake up my roommate. Our room was in the “T”, which meant it was at the end of the long hall and around the corner, so it was very quiet….
I wish I were the one who were to decide when a baby would be in the womb and when you would hear the words “You got the job!” and when the house would sell and a guy propose and the money come in. But I’m not. Your name comes to me, though, when I…
I used to lay on my mom’s bed and try to peak into her closet when she was getting her clothes out for the day, because there were a few little shelves up high where she kept future gifts. She would keep her eyes open while shopping, and if she saw something on sale that looked…
I sat down on the plastic chair in front of the table, and the man placed a form in front of me. I couldn’t read it, my eyes swimming with tears. Setting down the pen, I buried face in hands and cried win-the-lottery, can’t-believe-I’m-finally-doing-this, dream-coming true tears. Months ago God put this in front of me, the same months…
So far, reading the book of Job is tied with Leviticus for most miserable read. (By the way, I’m now on August 26th of the one-year Bible mom gave me Christmas of 2011. Mmhm.) Job has ridiculous friends, and that makes me squirm, because I’ve been the stupid friend before. Many’s the time I’ve looked at…
Do you know how overwhelming it is to hear the bell ring and then to open wide your classroom door to a wave of teenagers you’ve never met? That was my first day of teaching. Today was glorious, now three weeks into the school year, because I feel like I’m finally starting to build rapport with my…
This post is a shout-out to my precious grandma friend who has been in rehab for more days than she can count. Diabetic and with recent leg amputation and congestive heart failure, your nights have lasted for what seem like 36 hours, as you try to catch your breath and get comfortable in bed. You told…
I dropped him off to head out to camp, but there were a lot of people around, so it had to be just a quick, Love ya. See ya tomorrow. My phone rang an hour later. That wasn’t a very good goodbye, he said. No, it wasn’t. I love you, he said, nice ‘n slow….
I was reading National Geographic, and staring at me from the page was Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a 42-year-old from Austria and “the first woman in history to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-plus-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen.” Shall I mention that I was winded after climbing the three flights of stairs to my daughter’s dorm room…
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