real, raw motherhood
It’s the end of the day and tonight, unlike so many other nights, I am not deep to the bone tired. Tonight, I feel great. I’m sitting on my lanai sipping a glass of wine. A gentle breeze sways the sheer white curtains my husband helped me install yesterday. The Christmas lights we hang year-long…
At 8.30 pm on Wednesday, we said goodbye to yet another neighbor. The Johnsons had lived at the end of our private lane, two houses down from us for just over 5 years now. They moved in with one tiny tot and moved out with two: a first grader girl and a toddler boy. (Their…
We just started on a journey. We’ll be away from home for nine weeks, traveling the world to teach seminars. It is quite a privilege and we don’t take it for granted. Preparing for such an adventure involves a fair amount of stress yet I managed better than ever and even completed all the packing…