“Do we really need that?” This happens to be one of my most uttered phrases to my husband. Honestly, my wonderful husband drives me a little crazy. I feel like I often see a steady flow of incoming packages—packages of all shapes and sizes, of which even after they are opened I’ll give him that […]
Life has been challenging lately. Challenging in ways I had never expected. Never prepared for. Never saw coming. Do we ever see what challenges are ahead? And yet, God goes in front of us before we ever step into each struggle. That, we can be sure of, but sometimes it’s hard to find God in […]
I was hanging out with my daughter and I proudly proclaimed, “Look at my hair. All I did was brush it today.” She, being a mom raising little ones replied, “Oh yeah, well I didn’t even brush mine today!” Life can get pretty crazy in the season of raising kids. In that unpredictable time of […]
Sometimes I feel like I’m living on a roller coaster with regard to my body. All of a sudden (doesn’t it always feel like “all of a sudden” even though it was probably gradual?) my clothes aren’t fitting like I know they should. And then there’s that fatal day where there’s no way you’re wearing […]
As I write today I’ve been married for over 37 years. Have all of the years been blissful? Noooooo. They haven’t. But would I do it again? Yessssss. Some days I sit back and think, How in the world did I get so lucky? And other days, Geez this is hard! Do you have alternating […]
His phone was left on the kitchen counter and that text came in. You find an earring in his suit pocket and you know it’s not yours. Victoria’s Secret undies fall out when you open the glovebox of his car. Devastation floods through your body. Hurt. Betrayal. Crumbling. It’s every married woman’s nightmare. We all […]
I got engaged at eighteen. Yes, I was very young. And my prince? He seemed old to me at the time. Mike was twenty. A year later we said, “I do.” (Actually, we said “I will.” I have always felt cheated I didn’t get to say “I do,” since I had dreamed of doing so […]
I was just thinking. Please bear with me. Just wondering…do you think we should change the marriage vows to something a little less permanent? I mean, forever, until death do us part, in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, I mean, really, isn’t that a bit extreme? Forever?! I don’t know […]
With permission today’s post is written by my beautiful cousin, Grace Alfredson. These are her elegant words: Today is suicide awareness day. Nine years ago today, that meant nothing to me but for the last nine years it has meant many different things. In 2011 it meant shame, in 2012 it meant guilt, in 2014 […]
“I got flowers!” she announced. Wait. Let me back it up. My husband has been undergoing physical therapy to recover from his knee replacement surgeries. Yes, you read that right, surgeriessss with an s, both knees got replaced. Mike told his therapist, Roxy (not her real name) that his wife (me) had a new book […]
