a mother’s love
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Every Exhale a Triumph
In the same way I walked outside last Wednesday morning and felt the trueness of spring, there was a moment of lifting back in early spring 2022 when I laughed and felt it. Postpartum the second time around was more difficult than the first. I wrote about some of those feelings in this post, Mommy… Continue reading
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To Good Places in a Hurry – life these days💖
I use to hold my baby boy at the goat pen and say, “Look at your future chores.” Yesterday, I told him to put his boots on and “take this bag down to Dad.” It was supposed to go down with the compost for the chickens, but it got left behind so I asked my… Continue reading
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How Cake Accompanies the Best Love Stories
No one told me how perfect it feels to carry a cake alight with birthday candles to the sound of a family singing Happy Birthday. Or how happy I’d feel shielding the candles and seeing the faces of those I love most dearly through the flickering flame. It’s so familial and so intimate. I always… Continue reading
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Weary But Never Empty
“The weary world rejoices…“ We sing this and we say it. We live it, too. A weary world rejoicing does not mean we throw off weariness in order to rejoice, but that we rejoice while we are weary, because we have Reason to hope that this weariness will not last forever. And it won’t. With… Continue reading
