How we ring in the new year is how we’ll spend the whole year. False.
Five days I’ve been sick, and nothing comes out right, and I’m tired and cranky and frustrated that even after all this time my eyes still burn and my throat still feels like it’s holding shards of glass and my nose is the heaviest appendage on my face, except for my...
How we ring in the new year is how we'll spend the whole year. False.
Five days I’ve been sick, and nothing comes out right, and I’m tired and cranky and frustrated that even after all this time my eyes still burn and my throat still feels like it’s holding shards of glass and my nose is the heaviest appendage on my face, except for my...
Top Ten for 2014: Celebrating the past, looking toward the future
The beginning of a new year means first reviewing the old. 2014 was a great year for this blog, and I just want to say thank you for all your support and encouragement. Here are some of the best posts from the year. Top 10 blog posts for 2014: Dear Matt Walsh: We do...
When it feels like we’ve done nothing significant with the whole last year
There is something sweet and sacred and enchanting about a new year, because it feels like a brand new start. Every year we make our goals for this wiped clean slate, as a family, as a partnership, as individuals, and I feel so hopeful and excited for all we want to...
When it feels like we've done nothing significant with the whole last year
There is something sweet and sacred and enchanting about a new year, because it feels like a brand new start. Every year we make our goals for this wiped clean slate, as a family, as a partnership, as individuals, and I feel so hopeful and excited for all we want to...
I never expected my 8-year-old son to be depressed
I heard it first in a call from the school psychologist, called in to get to the bottom of an 8-year-old’s acting-out behavior in the classroom two months ago. But I heard it again in a face-to-face debrief meeting with his current teacher and the school principal and...
When we expect too much of ourselves during Advent
The book came three days late. But it wasn’t a big deal. We could read one devotion in the morning and one at night and be right back on track in three days. Except the first night we got all caught up in talking about the awesome day two boys had a school, how one...
When you can't even believe you're beautiful during pregnancy
(Photo by Helen Montoya Henrichs.) It happened just a few days ago, during the greeting time at church, when a woman I’ve known for years hugged my neck and kissed my cheek and then said, You look so beautiful. I managed to hold back my laugh, but I couldn’t stop...
When you can’t even believe you’re beautiful during pregnancy
(Photo by Helen Montoya Henrichs.) It happened just a few days ago, during the greeting time at church, when a woman I’ve known for years hugged my neck and kissed my cheek and then said, You look so beautiful. I managed to hold back my laugh, but I couldn’t stop...
When the hard parts of life feel like they may last forever
It’s always that time right before dinner is ready, when kids are whining because they’re hungry and I’m trying to pour five glasses of milk and no one will set the table like I asked and the soup is boiling over, probably scorching on its bottom because I have no...