The summer sun is out to stay, until a little shower pops up to water our gardens. Kids are out of school and running between our houses barefoot in my neighborhood. I hear laughter and basketballs bouncing right up until the time the sun meets the horizon and passes...
Motherhood
Tattoo It On My Heart
I got a new tattoo a few weeks ago. I really like it. My grandma doesn’t. She hates tattoos. She doesn’t understand “Why you young people have to mark things on your bodies.” She’s cute and l love her so much. And regardless of my tattoo, I know she loves me too....
Micah’s First Birthday
I decided to make cupcakes instead of buying them like we normally do. They're not the prettiest things I've ever seen, but boy, were they good! My hubby liked them too because making them saved us about 60 dollars. I'm not going to lie, they were...
When You Feel Forgotten On Mother’s Day
It was one of our hottest summers here in South Carolina. The sun was shining. There wasn’t a cloud in sight and the sky was so blue I wanted to bottle it up and save some for later. But I was sitting at the red light in our little town, crying so hard I could barely...
Dear Foster Mom,
You do hard things. You stand in the gap for little ones in the hardest days of their lives. You're the middle mom, filling the space between brokenness and redemption. You love them as they are your own, expecting nothing in return. You constantly have people in your...
When God Gives Us Too Much To Handle
I cringe when I hear these words, "But God will never give you more than you can handle." I literally bite my tongue and start twitching. I've heard it said to others and it's been said to me more times than I can count. The intentions of those words are meant to...