I celebrated my first child’s first birthday, the next day my Mom died, then we had a family birthday celebration with the Winnie the Pooh cake, then the funeral and then I found out I was pregnant the morning of the funeral. For a month my Mom had been on me to take a pregnancy…
Tag: motherhood
“you’re just a better mom”
“You are just a better Mom.” Oh how I cringe when I hear those words. I hear them a lot and I’m always uncomfortable about it. It is a huge compliment. When my son asked “mom, what do you want to be when you grow up?” and I answered “I’ve always just wanted to be…
A Mother (in-law)’s Gift
I write a lot about how God is working in my life–or more often about how He is working in other people’s lives that directly affect me. I believe that God is the master knitter and each stitch is meant to be such an important part of the covering he is creating–all the time. My…