5 Things That Saved My Sanity This Week

This week I’ve had the privileged title of “Fort Holder-Downer”, while Brad is across the country. It comes with responsibilities of transporter, homework overseer, meal provider, house manager, conflict revolutionist, and a 4,127 other roles. And YES, I do these every single day, I just usually have back-up.  I have the best teammate I could …

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Boy Mama Confession: Fish Are Not My Friends

Boy Mama Confession: I’m not super fond of fishing. Catfish are down right scary looking creatures. Picking up larva is just gross. And wet moss freaks me out. I DO enjoy being outdoors and spectating. I’ve even brought along a book a few times this year. The pages don’t seem to get read with the …

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A Baby Shower Devotion for My Niece Expecting Her First Child…

I had the amazing privilege of giving a short devotion on Sunday for my niece’s baby shower.  It was a shower that I will never forget (not only for the tornado warnings, hail, and taking shelter in a small inner office with 30+ people), but because it was a beautiful day to celebrate my niece, …

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What I Don’t Do…

Thank you so much for letting me share my heart last week on “What I Do”. There was so much freedom in listing my priorities, and where God has me. Understanding my role and where things fit in, is so helpful in identifying where I can be used best, and what things to say “yes” …

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What I Do

I snuck onto the back patio yesterday while the boys were drawing and creating, and read a few quick chapters of this read I found a few weeks ago. And the chapter on the myth of “doing everything better” struck me especially hard.  The trap we get lured into of doing, doing, doing and spreading …

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The Messes I Make in This Beautiful Life

Yesterday was one of those long good days of motherhood. Brad was gone before the sun and not home until past the boys bedtime, which usually means I take the easy route for the day. I go into survival mode (which I know is probably making you single moms and moms where this is norm …

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Learning to Fly: Flight Lessons in Parenthood

Six and a half years into this parenting multiples journey, and we’re still finding our wings.  Most of the time it’s felt like a freefall.  There’s no instruction manual for raising quads, no practice kid to learn from, no long talks with your mom about how she handled four at once, no MOPS group for …

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Because Moms Put the “Labor” in Labor Day

In honor of Labor Day, I’m sharing our “Labor Day” story again for any of you who missed it in February.  I didn’t really go into labor on February 2, 2007, but I’ve been laboring ever since, so that counts, right????!!! Our Quadruplets’ Birth Story Part 1 {The Day We Found Quadruplets/Mono-Amniotic Twins} Part 2 …

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