Last week an interesting thing happened — more-correctly, a lesson in self-reflection occurred. Let’s rewind, however. Back in the Spring, I realized that one of my greatest weaknesses is impatience. Whether it’s service at a restaurant or my poor husband, I am as impatient as they come. I’d love to blame it on our culture or my “instant gratification” millennial generation, but I can’t. I’m just...

As we approach Cooper’s 2nd birthday, I might be getting a bit sentimental thinking “way back when……..”When we brought Cooper home from the hospital, we were amazingly at peace. I thought we’d be nervous wrecks. I thought we’d be overwhelmed, and there were moments of that for sure, but we kind of fell into place as parents with a strange sense of peace — well, at first.As the days went by I can...

It’s certainly that day. It’s not that day I’m on the mountain. It’s not even that day I’m on a hill. I am deep in the valley and it does not feel good. First thing this morning I discovered that LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, a Methodist affiliated hospital in Memphis that we love and support, lost a registered nurse, a respiratory therapist, and a pilot in a helicopter crash outside of Somerville. It was...

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26Oh is this a good one to start this drowsy Monday morning. It’s not really that it’s a ‘Monday.’ I don’t mind Mondays all that much. Generally I’m just thankful for another day to be all the things that God hopes I’ll be. You know, THE best wife there ever was (rolls eyes) or the Mom-of-the-Year!...

I feel like I have to write this. It’s been written, well, kind of written, before. Yes, it’s another one of those, “I’m a stay at home mom so that means I work all day,” posts. Well, like I said, kind of. It’s complicated. It’s different in my house from probably anything else you’ve ever seen and that’s ok. I am a SAHM (Stay At Home Mom), yes. All that means is that I don’t have...