This year for Mother’s Day Adam gave me a beautiful silver bracelet engraved with the names of our kids. I love, love, love it. But a couple weeks earlier he gave me something even better: four whole days at my mom’s house up north with just Isaac. I missed Adam and the three big kids. But I’m not going to… Read more →
Category: Faith
Cancer and Other Hard Things
Two weeks ago my family got some bad news. Some very bad news. I was getting ready to take Isaac for a walk when I noticed a message from my mom on my phone. My heart sank. My mom is not a phone person and she never calls me unless something really major has happened. I strapped Isaac into his… Read more →
Atticus Finch
The other night in the middle of our usual post-dinner, clean up, bath time, bedtime swirl, I heard Adam laughing in the other room. When I peaked through the doorway, he had Isaac stretched out across his lap and his phone in his hand. “Come watch this,” he said, holding out his phone, where comedian Jim Gaffigan was sharing that… Read more →