Rachelle Rea Cobb 6 Minute Read Five years ago, I became a mother, giving birth to our firstborn during the first uncertain month of the pandemic. Similar to how the year 2020 tilted the world, my little six-pound-nothing baby changed my entire life overnight – and she and her brother have just kept on changing it with each new baby milestone, toddler word learned, and the dawn of the “little girl” era.
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read For months now they’ve been working. Churning up dirt and wreaking mayhem, mostly in the early morning when cars are rushing by on their commute, but often during school pick-up hours, too. A slew of men with hard hats and orange vests intermingling with pig-tailed girls and running boys eager to beat them to the crosswalk.
For weeks I’ve watched those men lay cones, put up barriers, and direct me through the chaos. It seems they’re getting very little done.
Rachelle Rea Cobb 6 Minute Read Ever since we got married, I dreamed of Christmas with children. I love Christmas. Always have. Partly because my parents always labored to protect us from materialism by focusing less on the presents beneath the tree and more on stuffing the season with traditions like trimming the tree together, making a gingerbread house, and watching…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 8 Minute Read My husband and I trooped through three antique stores in one weekend looking for one thing: the perfect prayer bench to put in our narrow bedroom closet. The darling teal cabinet that we found looks nothing like a bench, but it drew both my husband and me from the corner of the last antique store…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 6 Minute Read A friend of mine had her first baby last month, so I offered to take her dinner, but it all went terribly wrong. Whenever a friend has a new baby, one of my favorite ways to show my love and support is to drop off a dinner complete with homemade bread or brownies (and maybe…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 4 Minute Read My husband, Devin, and I attended a marriage conference earlier this year with our church and left with an assignment: to read the book Cherish by Gary Thomas. Since we are both readers, we were not only excited to read a book together (something we’ve done sporadically since our dating days) but even more excited…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 2 Minute Read The story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 has always been a favorite of mine. Perhaps because our first meetings with Jesus were so similar: a thirsty and hopeless heart living an ordinary day suddenly transformed by an extraordinary encounter with the Savior of the world. Jesus went out of His…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read No other test I took in college changed my life like the MBTI personality test. I was just chatting with a friend today about how we both first took the MBTI during our college years. We both found it so freeing to discover that we are wired this way. And that’s okay. Other people are, too. Not my…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read This will be our eighth Christmas without him. My grandfather was a man of few words. The adjective “quiet” fit him to a T. Still, he was there for everything. Impromptu dinners, horse-riding competitions, graduations, and especially Christmas. There’s just something about sitting on the couch next to your grandpa while watching “Miracle on 34th…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read I wish I had been able to read this book back when I was single. Then (and now!) I devoured love stories left and right. There is just something about a love story, isn’t there? I can’t get enough. If you’re also a love story aficionado, allow me to introduce you to one of the…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 6 Minute Read When my husband and I bought a new-to-us car right after Valentine’s Day last year, we immediately fell in love with the sleek white minivan. There was only one problem: we couldn’t find the CD player. If it hadn’t come with a CD player, that wouldn’t have posed a hardship (okay, maybe a little). But…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 7 Minute Read As a historical fiction author, I’m often asked what gems of the genre I recommend. I love being asked for book suggestions, but I always follow up with a few questions first because there are so many facets (and sub-genres) to historical fiction! Here are my questions and answers, and most importantly, the titles of…
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