I allow myself to be consumed too often. Oh, sometimes it’s homeschooling my four treasures—reading, coaching the grueling revision process, praying while some labor over math. Sometimes it’s writing—revising my first novel, finishing my second, researching future ventures. This month, it’s more often been menu-planning and cooking. It’s the word consumed that is the glaring […]
Interruption. Even the sound of the word is terse and irritating. Perhaps a million times in my life, I’ve been “in the zone,” uber-focused on some meaningful (or meaningless but self-satisfying) task, when some lesser necessity burst upon my senses, barking its demands. “Emergency! Listen to me! We’re out of soy milk! Short Son is […]
I caught myself thinking like a fool again this week. The last month has been arduous. My mind crammed with others’ wisdom and sage advice, my heart encumbered by needful little ones, my days packed to the rafters with catch-up home and school work, my calendar jammed with daily and upcoming opportunities to minister, and […]
After a whirlwind week spent traveling to Budapest, testing kiddos and connecting with old and new friends, and traveling home from Budapest, I was beat. (But not conquered). Then I had a whirling dervish of a visit with my parents and my big sister before I sent off my two eldest. Our time together was […]
My plane. My children and BWIMH. My heart. My plane is parked on a rain-slicked tarmac as the pilot waits . . . and waits . . . for permission to take off. My children and Boyfriend-Who-is-My-Husband are back at home by now, taking a unified stab at life-without-Mom. They’ll do well, but it will […]
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