My eldest has a new turn of phrase that she loves to use, “life hack.” My week can often be about the things I need to get done, and there are days when I don’t get a chance to do some of the things I would love to do, like read, write, and listen to … Continue reading Three life hacks I use to snatch time in my week
This weekend, we tackled a little house project I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. We moved the homework station, complete with notice boards, around the corner. It seemed a simple thing but it took two days of patching holes, and sanding, and repainting. The result is that the kids’ stuff is more … Continue reading Creating Space
I am in the middle. In the middle of the term; in the middle of the primary years of parenting; in the middle of fifty-three thousand unfinished tasks (or so it seems). My mind is always full with too many tabs open. I'm dropping the ball. Last week I took the girls to their swimming … Continue reading on parenting in the middle
On Friday my youngest daughter (pictured above) turns 7. And I will have a 7-year-old and an 8-year-old for a season. And it surprises me how long I’ve been doing this parenting gig. And how much I still feel like a complete novice. I'm still so unsure of what I’m doing and I'm still so … Continue reading on cultivating tenderness
I have been feeling the gap of late. The gap between who I am, and who I want to be. The gap between what I know and what I need to know. There is a steep learning curve and I am right at the bottom of it. I am in a season of stretch. I … Continue reading What I lack
It is February, the beginning of my work year, and I still don’t know my schedule for this year, and that’s okay. My purpose and steps for this year are not yet clear and (strangely) I am comfortable in the uncertainty. I am sitting in a place of not knowing, with no urgency to know. … Continue reading The quiet ministry of slow