Paul David Tripp once said: “You learn very early how to protect your private life and how to put forth the persona that you want people to know and want people to understand. Know this: the vast majority of people you think you know you don’t in fact know.” Wow. While that’s probably always been…
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We Gave Them Life: Birthday Mom-Guilt is Not a Thing
Making birthdays special for my kids is not really my thing. I rocked their very first one – the one in which I gave them life. Life is a pretty special gift to give another human. I remind them of that, often. But for the ones after that very first one, I’m kind of meh. …
Social Media and Our Destructive Pretend Wholeness
The unsettling story dominating recent news has been the confession of a husband to killing his pregnant wife and allegedly, his two young daughters. As I read through the articles, the media had found social media posts from the wife, gushing about her husband and life and family. Only now, in the aftermath of the…
Our Family Road Trip: A Vacation from Reality
We are leaving soon on a family road trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. One thing my husband knows about me that you may not yet know: I become psycho when preparing for a trip. My psychosis comes not in the form of over-preparedness in the traditional sense. I am not spending my time…
A Mom’s Summer Check-out Checklist
Scroll through Pinterest, and you’ll see countless examples of summer checklists for kids. Need a chore chart? Check Pinterest. Want to find a good summer reading list? Pinterest has got you covered. I love how Pinterest makes my dream of “having control of my kids” seem like not only a possibility, given a small…