The other night John, Jacob and I went to visit some new friends we’d met at our church. They have a little boy just two months older than Jacob and the last time we met, the boys had a whole lot of fun playing together. This time wasn’t very different—except there was more hugging.  The […]

Sometimes mothering a toddler makes me feel like I’m losing my mind.   When a day starts off too early (read: no time to blog!), continues with a too-short nap (read: no time to knit, my new hobby), and climaxes with too many pokes at my glasses and pulls at my hair, I wonder when […]

In an effort to find this great article on motherhood the other day, I came across a couple of other articles that were, to say the least, not so inspiring.   Apparently being a mom can be boring and many mothers admit being lonelier than they’d ever been in their children’s first years.   And? […]