Sandbox Lessons

Sandbox Lessons

With the arrival of Spring came new sand for our backyard play area. My kids have spent what seems like every waking hour out there scooping and shoveling and digging. This afternoon, we invited our friends over to play with us. The group quickly abandoned the idea of...
Why I’m a Mess & That’s Okay

Why I’m a Mess & That’s Okay

I was on my way into the grocery store the other day (my life seems to revolve around very little other than shopping for food, making food and cleaning food off of dishes and people.) And I walked past a little vending machine with a small Christian magazine inside....
Why I’m a Mess & That’s Okay

Communication Fail: I Say, He Hears, We Both Lose

When I was in the middle of my first miscarriage, my husband went to the store and bought a new kitchen faucet. Ours had been broken for weeks, and he hadn’t mentioned the idea of fixing it once. But for whatever reason… we left our doctor’s appointment and drove...
Kids, Meet Becky

Kids, Meet Becky

Hi. I’m Becky, and before I had kids, I was… Well, I will just be honest. I was kind of awesome. We would have been friends. I was funny. Like – “Man, she’s funny!” funny. Maybe I wasn’t that funny – but at least I had time to laugh. I was very outgoing. There...
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