Caroline Rose Sanders 9 Minute Read Looking back at my teenage years is a bit of a blur, even though they were not all that long ago. I think it’s a blur because of all of the deep confusion I felt at times, and the dozens of enormous, seemingly insurmountable questions I was facing. I led a sheltered, happy life as…
Caroline Rose Sanders 11 Minute Read I’m really good at keeping the commandments. You know the ones: you shall not murder, shall not covet, shall not misspell someone’s name, shall not miscommunicate, shall not go more than two days without washing your hair, shall not take a wrong turn, shall not eat junk food, shall not sleep in, shall not wear…
Caroline Rose Sanders 10 Minute Read Dear Adoptive Families, You may be wondering why I’ve called you all here today. You are probably already on the defense, expecting me to ask you all sorts of inappropriate questions. You have little laminated notecards in your purse with “auto-responders” for queries such as, “How much did your kids cost?” and “Are they real…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read Have you ever accidentally overheard a segment of a conversation which sounded important and, upon inquiry, been told “not to worry about it”? If you’re like me, the first thing you’re going to do is completely disregard their command. How can you not worry about something that’s obviously being kept from you for a reason?…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read When I was a little girl, I lived in a green, three-story Victorian house which had come with a guest house. It was the only house on the market when my dad got the phone call. I can still see him at the phone in the kitchen with the long springy cord, hearing about the…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I’m not a mom and I don’t know if I ever will be, but I cannot remember a time before I stepped (or toddled) into my role of big sister. My younger siblings are two, three, six, ten, eleven and twelve years younger than I, and came into our family from all over the world….
Caroline Rose Sanders 9 Minute Read “How in the world am I supposed to find someone to marry in this day and age?” I posed this question, rather loudly, to my mother. My mother, the woman who has been married for over thirty years. The woman who was not only married by my age, but parenting already. It was late at night and…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I was born in 1992. I wasn’t a teenager until 2005, which means I narrowly missed the biggest “purity” era. I never attended a conference surrounding the topic of abstinence, made a vow in front of my youth group or was awarded a piece of jewelry symbolic of my commitment. My parents did things the…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read On Christmas Eve, 1995, my family moved across the state of Texas in order for my dad to start his new job on the first of the year. We were a family of six and my little sister, Jeweliet, was less than a year old. Jeweliet was a beautiful baby with a charming personality and…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I really thought I was going to die under the weight of our Father’s Day gift. No, really. I had one end of the table and the other end was up on our deck and it was sliding toward me at an uncomfortable rate. My brothers had crafted the table out of solid, treated pine….
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read It was another college party. I was the odd man out, the one who didn’t actually go to college at all, the one who didn’t know the songs playing from the iPod in the corner. I was the one sitting on the back of the couch, wondering what to do with my hands. I looked…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “What may look to me like Plan B or Plan Z was Plan A all along.” -Elisabeth Elliot, Be Still My Soul When people ask me what I’m planning on doing this summer, I tell them one thing: hold Simeon. Simeon is my nephew, and he’s more-than-likely going to be born next month. The past several months…
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