Sometimes having a discontent child is not a bad thing….. In fact, we might have a thing or two to learn from them about wanting more.

I see your constant wonderings. You wonder if you’re doing enough, if you’re doing too much, if you’re doing it right, if you have any idea what you’re doing at all. But amongst all of these questions gripping you around every corner, I have a few more for you.

Sometimes it is these short seasons—often the very difficult ones— that foster the most growth within us.

We all know that reading does incredible things for a child, but what about the skill of storytelling? Here is a fun, cheap, and creative way to nurture within your child a love and skill for story telling!

It was that frightening hour. You know. 4 pm. Before the husband gets home. And when you have just about reached the end of all you can give. But then he sent that text message.

The truth is, this job is very, very, very hard. It is demanding and exhausting and confusing and incredibly emotional. But that is exactly where the beauty is found. In the hard stuff. And in the big grace that makes the hard stuff into the holy stuff.