God and Grandma

God and Grandma

On our way home from driving the other girls to school, my daughter Maggie likes to talk. The drive to school is noisy. Sometimes it’s all bickering and whining. Other times the older girls sing or tell the same joke repeatedly. Maggie, usually still sleepy,...
Use Everything

Use Everything

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks at my house. I am now (temporarily) working what is undeniably full-time for the first time in 10 years. My focus word for this season: Adjustment. It’s an adjustment for me, as I figure out how to manage my work, my...
Process

Process

Our yard is covered in a blanket of fresh snow. For now, it’s clean and new, sparkly and undisturbed on this star-lit morning. For this moment, everything underneath is hidden from view. All I see is white. Earlier this fall, yellows and browns filled our yard....
Work That Makes a Difference

Work That Makes a Difference

Working with purpose is an everyday way to make a difference. Yet as as a mom, I often view my life in terms of before and after, with and without. The years before, life without kids — and the years after, life with kids. Soon after our first daughter was born in...