Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read In a large family, there is always a lot going on, but in many ways my family had been in a holding pattern for a couple of years. The changes we had hoped to see, the progress we had hoped to make, seemed like it would never come. I am happy to announce that 2014 had a…
Callie Mitchell 5 Minute Read I will never forget the first sight of her itty bitty wiggly body, or hearing the sound of her dainty feminine cry! At long last, my baby was here! The doctor scooped her up and laid her on my chest. As we snuggled on our living room couch, skin-to-skin, full of tears, joy, relief, and…
Caroline Rose Sanders 3 Minute Read When I was a little girl of eleven years, I lived in a rental house in Bryan, Texas with my three siblings, my wonderful stay-at-home mother and our hardworking M.D. (which stands, of course, for My Dad). Though we were enjoying homeschooling, getting involved in a new church and playing in our backyard that passers-by…
Natasha Metzler 4 Minute Read Rain splatters on the windows. It is cold, but the air is warm. “Come look!” my daughter pulls at my arm, her brown eyes sparkling. There are new piggies in the barn. They hide from the camera and grunt happily as they munch on corn behind the water dish. We talk about names and I…
Emily C. Gardner 3 Minute Read My four-month-old son has fallen fast asleep on the floor next to me. Both arms are spread-eagled, one tiny hand clutched around his cow blanket. He is peaceful and seems oh-so-small compared to the room he occupies. Sometimes it’s hard for me to imagine my little man will one day be a grown man with facial hair…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “I bet you and your siblings are really close, huh?” someone asks me yet again. “Yup!” I reply. “We are!” There’s not much use in going deeper into the topic with someone who can never relate. The moment they hear that we were homeschooled, they’ve already imagined us in our own personal one-room schoolhouse with…
Emily C. Gardner 4 Minute Read Four jars sit on my windowsill — a little scoop of sand from a special place held in a timeless embrace of memory in each one. The jars have traveled with me from apartment to apartment, house to house. The clear glass on one jar in particular is a bit smudged and cloudy, wearing its…
Chantel 5 Minute Read I’ve worked from home off and on for the past eight years. I was working for other companies, putting in long hours over which I had little control. I loved working from home, but not being able to have my own schedule? It was exhausting. But last year, that finally changed. I started my own…
Emily C. Gardner 4 Minute Read When I was younger, traditions were the most sacred part of any holiday. Mess with one of the things we did every year and the whole holiday felt off kilter. If the evening didn’t culminate with full bellies and jammies in front of Gramma’s roaring fireplace, it just wasn’t Thanksgiving. If we didn’t drive around in the…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read I come from a large, close-knit family. Holidays have always been very happy, special times. We aren’t the type to sit quietly around the the tree and wait as each person opens their gift. Christmas morning is always a time of beautiful, intentional chaos because we are all bursting with joy and gratitude. Thanksgiving dinner…
Shannon Coe 5 Minute Read Nestled in between dramatic and suspenseful stories of the mighty judges of God and the kings of Israel, is the most popular mother-in-law/daughter-in-law story ever told. Don’t doubt the placement. It is as purposeful as it is fascinating. There’s a peculiar thing we do when we become so familiar with Bible stories: we stop re-reading…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Do you remember when you were a little girl and it was sometimes REALLY hard to honour your parents? At that age “honour” was usually spelled o-b-e-y or r-e-s-p-e-c-t. The trouble is that now we’re all grown up — with our own faith, ideals and values as well as our own personalities and preferences in…
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