The choice is always before us: A life of desperation or a life of celebration. In today’s podcast, I invite you to celebrate your life and to celebrate with me as I look back over this incredible last year. I am truly overflowing with gratitude as I remember the love and faithfulness of God in…
Tag: small children
The Sacred Everyday
This morning I woke up to a miracle. All of my children are still soundly sleeping in their beds, except for the baby, who came down early to snuggle. Her head is fuzzy and soft like a little duck. The house is dark. And quiet. There is no birdsong yet. The hum of thought in…
Having Children: A Spiritual Journey
Over the last few weeks, I have been rereading old blog posts and speculating about my life. The past year has been both incredibly sweet and difficult, trying to balance daily life with six young children with all the demands of three meals a day, the never-ending laundry, growing a home business, homeschool, planning for…
Slow Work
God is doing a slow work in me. So many days it feels like nothing is happening. Like my life, which once seemed so useful and productive, is making zero impact on the world. The days when life was defined by an impressive string of accomplishments are lost somewhere at the bottom of the laundry…
Making Time for Quiet
My life is loud. With five happy healthy children ages seven and under, a husband who is basically the personification of music, recording in the living room and making Irish whistles and bamboo saxophones all hours of the day and night–not to mention around 25 piano, guitar, and whistle students that rotate in and out of our…
Surrender: Listening for the Song
Our baby is 3 months old now. We have settled into our new roles and are working ourselves into a more predictable pattern of living. Life as a mother of five small children is a blur. Every day has its own rhythm. Sometimes it is like a song. Sometimes it is total chaos. Last week was particularly hard…
Pitter Patter: The Story Behind the Song
I discovered coffee shops in college. I never had very much money, but back then I could usually dig up $2 to buy a hot drink and rent a space at a little cafe for a few hours to think and write and declutter my brain. I lived in a creative state, with lots of…
Being Home
I spend a lot of time at home. About 85% of my life happens behind the closed door of our brightly-colored, overflowing-with-laundry, two-bedroom house. My husband and I and our four children (ages 6 and under) share every room. Our bedroom is the hangout spot during the day, the living room is where we teach…
Now Booking Shows for Valentine’s (and the upcoming year)!
Hello, friends. After a couple of months of getting things back to “normal” around here, we are excited about sharing our music and playing shows again. Randy is itching to play the upright bass, and he has a surprise up his sleeve that I am not currently allowed to reveal… : ) If you are…
Family Love, A Study in Mathematics
People keep asking me if we are going to have more children. The question ranks up there–probably around number 4–on the list of my daily-smalltalk-with-a-pregnant-woman chart. {(1)”How much longer?”( 2) “How are you feeling?” (3)”Are you so ready to have that baby…?” topping the chart…} The top three questions are easy to answer. {(1)”I have…
Time Travel
I watched a really mediocre time travel movie last night. I won’t mention the name here for two reasons–Number 1– I laughed (uncomfortably) at a lot of the moments that were supposed to be sincere and heartfelt, (especially if Randy happened to be in the room…) and Number 2– I am a little embarrassed…