It feels like I blinked and a year passed by. A year with probably fifteen half-finished blog posts, and nothing to show for words being published here.
Yesterday Gabe and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that the morning of July 16th, seven years ago my mom was there hosting all of my bridesmaids, with a spread of bagels and fruit and yogurt and coffee in the kitchen of my childhood home. That morning I woke up with swollen glands...
At a birthday celebration dinner the other day, Esmae pulled down a glass from the table, it hit the floor and shattered into a thousand tiny pieces causing the entire outdoor seating area to look at us and the man at the table next to us to grab Esmae to ensure she didn’t step on the glass. Tonight as I...
Have you ever been in the woods in early morning, when the light is beginning to break through sky-high limbs? The fog is dense, so much so that the rays of light are defined by it, streaking through as if you could wrap your hands around them. The branches glisten with dew, heavy with the weight of each drop. The...
Leaving what you have always known, leaving the life you’ve always loved has this way of forcing you down into the depths of your beating heart. It plunges you into these places of gratefulness and sadness and hope and clarity in a way that I’m not sure I’ve experienced before. It has opened my eyes to, well, a lot of...
In 2007, my parents drove me to my pink and orange themed, non-air conditioned dorm room at Weston Hall
Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a part of a family where you are one of two children. Your mother has light hair and dark, denim blue eyes. Your father has sandy blonde hair and eyes as pure, clear blue as a summer sky. Your sister has hair so yellow it’s almost white, and eyes a shade directly...
Lately I’ve been in a funk. There’s been a lot going on around our house—the Lord is brewing up some changes that get me really excited and at the same time really overwhelmed. Do you ever feel like when your to-do list is growing, all you want to do is hole up and hide away? That’s me lately. I fill...
Currently, I have a cold, my kids have a cold, and it has been starting to feel a little cold outside. I am sitting on the couch after what has felt like a long day, full and tiresome, but my body refuses to sleep—my lids heavy, but my insides restless. I drag my feet into the kitchen where I thoughtlessly...
So here I sit with the dreaded cursor blinking at me, encouraging me in none other than a pushy way to write—to say something—anything. There’s something about the cursor that reminds me every time I sit staring at it though—it reminds me that to say something is better than to say nothing. It reminds me that whatever words spill from...
Hey All, I'm Lindsay. I'm here putting my heart out there for you to read and hopefully be encouraged by. This place here is my life--my parenting, my home, my Jesus, my thoughts about life. I can't wait to get to know you through this sweet and sacred place.