The Advice I Gave (But Never Took)

I know it's been a while since I really wrote anything of substance.  I'm sure you're tired of following my goal progress every week and are wondering what's going on.  I have to just be completely honest with myself and with you.  I am frequently finding myself paralyzed by fear.  The funny thing is that I just wrote a book on fear and how to overcome fear, and here I sit having wasted so much time fighting some of the things I've been needing to do the most. The truth is that we all dole out advice to others and…

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How to Love Your Kids (When They’re Driving You Crazy)

  When my oldest daughter was born, I didn't quite know how to parent. Go figure. I stumbled through the basics, and I think I got them fairly right. But then that little girl grew and started being able to do things on her own, and when that happens, well, you know, things happen. Messes happen. Accidents happen. We get to potty training and teaching our kids how to be helpful by carrying things. But then we forget that they are still little and that they still make mistakes. Heck. We forget that we make mistakes. And suddenly that little…

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When You Feel Like a Nobody: Your Voice Matters

Yesterday I felt like a nobody. I can't pinpoint what it was exactly. Maybe it was people criticizing the company I interviewed with last week after having looked down on me so long for not having a "real" job. Maybe it was all the church leaders being recognized now that I'm not (for the first time in a long time) one of those leaders. Sometimes it's difficult to see everyone else getting recognition for doing the same things you never got recognition for.  Sometimes everybody else's success just makes you feel like a nobody.  Like being "just" a mom isn't important.  Like…

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If You Could Describe 2015 in One Word…

...what would it be? I ask this question every year.  I love to hear the answers that everyone has to give.  Some years are hard.  Others are wonderful.  I love to hear the stories that come with them. At the beginning of 2015, my one word was faith. I thought that maybe, by the end of the year, my ending word would be different, but I can't describe the year any differently than how I intended it to be.  It was faith that we relied on, and it was faith that grew each and every day, week, and month this year…

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All Things New

I don't know about you, but the holidays just seem to have crept up behind me and left me in the dust.  I was caught up in a whirlwind of parties and gifts, decorating and baking.  Now my entire world seems to have stopped in the middle of that whirlwind and dropped, because all that's left is a great big mess.  It's not that this whirlwind was anything inherently bad, because none of it is.  It's just that, when you get caught up in all of the stuff, you seem to let go of the important things.  You know, the things that…

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