Some days, as a stay-at-home mom, I literally find my self walking around the house, doing nothing… Please note: this is NOT because I am lazy or that there is nothing to being a stay-at-home mom (and part-time freelance writer, let me just add – by the way, why do I feel like I have to justify myself?!)Anywhoo…If I decide to sit down in front of the computer to do some writing, Alex starts climbing up [...]
I stumbled upon a blog by Steve Wiens a while ago, about parents and little children, and it was really great so i emailed him and asked for permission to use it as part of the Taboo Topics series and he graciously said, 'Yes!' and also sent me a link to the Infertility blog which he wrote which looks like it will be really helpful for people who have been struggling with that: Ten words [...]
Continuing my sharing of positive news: Anyone who has heard Nick Vujicic speak or seen him on a video will have been deeply inspired... Nick's Wikipedia page gives a brief intro to this giant of a man: 'Nicholas James "Nick" Vujicic (born 4 December 1982) is a Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare 'disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs. As a child, he struggled mentally and [...]
Answering the ‘baby’ question The way I work through things is different to how many others do. I experience something, think and pray about it and when I feel that I’ve heard God about something, I write about it. Sharing what God has taught me in challenging situations is like the ‘acceptance’ phase of grief. This blog post has been several months in the making and tells the story of something that we have battled [...]
i said to my beautiful wife Valerie the other day something along the lines of 'what do people write statuses [stati?] about on Facebook if they are not entering into a relationship or having a baby? [or these days in americaland making some kind of staunchly pro this party or anti that one political statement] as it just seemed like the majority of statuses [stati?] i was reading were about one of those... two things [...]
i said to my beautiful wife Valerie the other day something along the lines of 'what do people write statuses [stati?] about on Facebook if they are not entering into a relationship or having a baby? [or these days in americaland making some kind of staunchly pro this party or anti that one political statement] as it just seemed like the majority of statuses [stati?] i was reading were about one of those... and two [...]
I read the post from the friend of yours who is still in so much pain over losing her baby and it made me feel so much less alone. She puts into words so much of how i'm feeling. Words that I haven't had for the last 7 months. I had an abortion. I never thought those words would apply to me. But they do. I desperately wanted my baby. But the doctors told me [...]
one of the aims of the 'Taboo Topics' series was to have real people sharing real stories about topics that people don't speak a lot about - up til now i have had people share as themselves but i fully understand with a topic like this, that my friend did not feel comfortable sharing her name and i totally get that... so to those reading this, it is an anonymous story of someone who had [...]
one of the aims of the 'Taboo Topics' series was to have real people sharing real stories about topics that people don't speak a lot about - up til now i have had people share as themselves but i fully understand with a topic like this, that my friend did not feel comfortable sharing her name and i totally get that... so to those reading this, it is an anonymous story of someone who had [...]
I have wrestled with writing this for a while now as it is a very sore spot but I know that God can work through this whether to help me heal or to help others know they are not as alone as we often feel in this situation. My story starts not after I got married to my amazing hubby but a few years before. I was about 20 when I found out that I [...]