Life With Littles
Open-book
Eric and I went on a lunch date yesterday, and on the way out of his office at church he grabbed a book and handed it to me. “I want you to read this chapter,” he said with a smile. The book was Donald Whitney’s Simplify Your Spiritual Life.
I want to [...]
Letting Go
As parents surely we do this more times than we like. No one likes to talk about it really because it can be a yucky part of life. I’m certainly not the first to think about this subject, and I have written about it in the past. The last several days God [...]
Fun With Food
The kids and I had a fun lunch yesterday making fruit and veggie shapes and faces. We haven’t done that in over a year, so that made it brand-new for them. We had fun making funny faces and people. I loved the little truck that Steven and I made together, but my [...]
Schedule Me In
I had a post that I wrote a few days ago about the whole “making a schedule” idea, but I’ve pretty much scrapped it because it was long-winded and not really what I wanted to say. Me? Long-winded?!
Actually Tracey already commented on it yesterday because I post-dated it and forgot about changing [...]
The Three R’s of Breast-feeding
Without seeming flippant about this topic, I want to propose what I believe are the three most important factors of success in breast-feeding. These three tips are grounded in my own experience with breast-feeding three children in a span of four years. I look forward to nursing more babies if God allows, so [...]
Keeping the Peace: Simplicity With Little Ones
Sometimes life with infants and toddlers makes parents feel like we are on some distant non-orbital planet, never to be remembered again or seen for a thousand years. We have left civilization, and we’re stuck in a disorganized, foreign, chaotic state without a handbook. Somehow this isn’t in the plan. It can [...]
The Grand Little
It is the small that God counts as significant.Small tasks - done with contentment and gratitude.Small prayers - spoken with a heart of trust and belief.Small deeds - offered as someone’s benefit with no hidden agenda or motive.I think my blog is unfortunately about “me” so many times, and that is because often I do [...]
So tired
I probably shouldn’t write a blog post when I’m this tired, but oh well. I don’t share enough when I’m feeling like this, and I think it’s healthy and encouraging to other moms out there. Take it for what it’s worth I guess. I’m still going to look to God, run [...]
"Daddy, I’m scared!"
I don’t know that I’ve really experienced the “baby blues” (postpartum depression) with any of my babies so far. I know people who have experienced this, and I’m pretty sure I would know if I had. I KNOW for sure that I experienced morning-sickness, and I KNOW for sure I experienced afterbirth pains. You don’t [...]