It was well after midnight, and I scrambled to find a pen and paper. I have a hard enough time locating a pen during the day, but I was able to find a marker in my kitchen junk drawer. It was a blank sheet of white paper waiting to be filled - a clean slate. I needed...

I tried to calm her. Sweetheart, just put the dress on the counter so we can pay for it. Okay? Look. See all of these people patiently waiting in line behind us? This nice lady at the register wants to finish with us so she can help the other customers too. I just...

  The house is quiet. I’m walking from room to room looking in each. Everything is still until I hear a little bit of giggling coming from a not-so-secretive little girl. “Ready or not, here I come!” I shout, giving her a little warning that I’m on my way. More...

I'm almost to the end of another day. I got my kids up and took them to church and fixed lunch and answered a million questions and solved a million fights and detached a million stuck Legos. There are so many things I need to do. But I know any minute my kids will be...

“Be sure to take pictures in your heart,” a friend had told me before my wedding day. “On your wedding day, it will go by so quickly. All of the hard work and planning will all be over in a matter of minutes. If you don’t make a point to remember it, you will look...

She didn't call for me tonight. I stood a few steps outside of her bedroom door after I put her to bed and waited. Nothing. She didn't cry standing at the edge of her crib reaching for me to lift her out like she did four years ago. She didn't get out of a toddler bed...

This isn't for one group of moms. This isn't for moms in one season of life. This isn't for just a few of us. This is for each of us. To the momma in waiting who is all together thrilled and terrified... Who has done as much as she can to get ready for her little...