Conversation I just had with my 7 year old daughter...
She had some very pointed questions about overhearing my husband and I discuss the division going on in our country. Actually the full...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Aug 23, 2020
- 1 min
I’m praying for your child will you pray for mine too?
I sent my daughter to school today. Today was harder than her first day four years ago when I dropped her off at Pre-k3. I found myself...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
What if I don’t want my normal back?
What if I don’t want our normal back? Every where I see some version of the words, “I can’t wait to get our normal life back.” I was...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
This world is heavy
It has been a heavy couple of weeks. A friend of a friend laid her two year old daughter for a nap and came back to find her daughter had...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
We are all failures
I caught my daughter lying to me last week. This is the first time I have known that she lied directly to me without hesitation. It even...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
It’s all hard
Being a working mom is hard. Actually just being a parent is hard. I have stayed home, worked part time, and full time and it’s all hard...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
Why isn’t God showing us the way
I held my daughter tonight as she cried huge gasping tears. She’s six and she’s learning the world of friendships and relationships and...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Jan 27, 2020
- 3 min
I don’t limit my kids screen time.
I don’t limit my kids screen time. I recently felt judged about this decision when an acquaintance—whose oldest child is the same age as...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Jan 27, 2020
- 2 min
Sometimes you just need to let them be broken.
I held my daughter tonight as she cried huge gasping tears. She’s six and she’s learning the world of friendships and relationships and...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Sep 20, 2019
- 4 min
I repeated Psalm 34:1 in my mind over and over.
I was making a left turn across a busy highway with no turning lane. I guess the man behind me thought I should have turned sooner...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
Parents who do it alone…you are a hero.
When I think of a hero… I don’t think of the the guy in a helmet and a jersey receiving the loud cheers on Sundays. I don’t think of the...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Aug 29, 2019
- 2 min
Invisible messes
Today I sat in a car wash lobby on my lunch break, hoping they could solve yesterday’s mess. I pulled out the car seats, washed the...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Jul 21, 2019
- 2 min
You didn’t write their story
I went to the pool today with my daughter. I was un-showered, makeup free, and my jewelry was definitely left at home—not even my wedding...
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faithfullyfailingh
- Jun 3, 2019
- 4 min
Dear Daycare Teacher
Against every ounce of intuition and mom gut I have, I left my baby with you again this morning. I left her with you after you failed us....
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faithfullyfailingh
- May 29, 2019
- 2 min
I look at you sweet baby and I wonder
I look at your chubby cheeks and smooth baby skin and I wonder what you will look like when you are five— the age of your sister. I...
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faithfullyfailingh
- May 28, 2019
- 2 min
For seconds my mind frantically wondered if our lives had just forever changed.
I was in the check-out line at a home warehouse store, with my then three year old daughter, the place was packed and the shortest line...
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faithfullyfailingh
- May 22, 2019
- 2 min
Her past and her present walked across that stage and it gave me a glimpse of her future.
Tonight I watched my daughter walk across a stage in a cap and gown. Tonight I watched my daughter graduate Kindergarten. It’s the first...
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faithfullyfailingh
- May 14, 2019
- 1 min
Only one label for motherhood matters.
My daughter and I cruised the baby/kids clearance section of Target this weekend. As we carefully looked through each section, ensuring...
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faithfullyfailingh
- May 14, 2019
- 3 min
Generation of the vanishing village
What does it look like if you don’t have a village? Not having a village is… The most recent date night with your spouse is the first in...
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faithfullyfailingh
- May 8, 2019
- 3 min
When it was just her
I sat at the dinner table opening the mail from the day. My birthday is approaching and each day this week has brought a new card in the...
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