Well, you would think that writing a blog specifically for moms I would have penned a lovely, encouraging and inspirational post leading up to Mother’s Day, right? Nope. Not me. That logic completely did not manage to find itself on my radar. But it probably turned out for the best, because now I do want to talk about Mother’s Day. My Mother’s Day. Which was horrible. Continue reading →

My little man, Hugo James is turning one tomorrow! ONE!!! I cannot believe it. I know people say cherish every moment because it goes so fast…but it really truly does go so fast. I cannot believe I have a one year old! Sitting here pondering over his past year, I am reminded that one year ago today (Thursday, not date) I was in active labor and completely unaware of the mind-blowing circumstances that were about to take place over the next two hours. Nothing could have prepared us for what we experienced. If you had told me that we would deliver our own son, in the bath, in our own home, alone, with our own two hands I would not have believed you! But God in all of his awesomeness always seems to go above and beyond our mere human expectations, even the high ones! Now, I was expecting (in faith) an amazing labor…but this just took it to a WHOLE. OTHER. LEVEL. Continue reading →

For my husband Gavin and I, the last few months have seen us in some personally straining situations and testing circumstances. We have stepped out in obedience to a call God has placed on our hearts, but it has required a huge amount of faith. We haven’t seen the promised breakthrough yet, but in the meantime the gap between what God has told us to do and the reality of his promise manifesting in our life is getting smaller and smaller. The funny thing is, it’s not about the manifestation of this breakthrough (it never is, is it!) but the journey he is taking us on on the inside, the purification he is doing in our hearts and the transformation this is creating in our life. It’s all pretty exciting, and what he is doing inside of us is far more powerful than what he is doing on the outside. Continue reading →

Everywhere I look lately I see and hear my mommy friends talking about how much they are struggling, how overwhelmed they feel, how difficult it is trying to juggle work/kids/life and worst of all, how all of this makes them feel like a bad mom. Seriously, not just one or two people I know, but a whole swarm of overworked, underslept, mentally emaciated moms at the end of their rope crying out “What is going on?!?!?!” Which makes me question…what IS going on? Continue reading →

I have always had a deep affinity with Hannah from the Old Testament, the prophet Samuels mother. Not simply because she was an amazingly faithful woman of God who loved him, trusted him beyond her circumstances, and had her steadfast hope in him no matter what, but I found I was able to relate with her on our journey of trying to fall pregnant with our now 11 month old son, Hugo James. I’m not certain how many years she tried to conceive before she had the joyful gift of giving birth to Samuel, but she certainly endured a lot in that time. For my husband Gavin and I, it was a four year journey of pain, triumph, disappointment, hope, faith and ultimately joy and gratitude that is absolutely beyond description. Continue reading →