We all have one, that challenging relative we hardly see during the year, but it’s the holiday time, and well, they’re family, right? You love this relative, and yet, anytime you see him you kind of brace yourself because you never know what they will be demanding of you this time. Or she brings up […]
It was a normal day not much different than any other day. I was preparing my home for a visit—my parents were due in the next day and would be spending the weekend with us. Noticing an early morning text on my phone I picked it up to read it, but was not ready for […]
A recent survey with the National Sleep Foundation found that twenty-three percent of married people routinely sleep in separate beds. A week goes by, then a month, which turns into two months, and then a year passes, and you realize you haven’t had a good roll in the sheets in way… way… too long. Many […]
“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 […]
