sharing God’s grace and our adventures doing life from our little Montana homestead
I love it here, even as we're being broken and mended again. There's great opportunity for growth, and my marriage is being stretched and sewn back together in little ways everyday as we learn to work side by side and take on a house full of boys - an experience neither of us are experts… Continue reading You get what you give.
I'm slowly changing our address on all our bills and documents to... Powell, Wyoming. How did this even happen!? It feels like I'm just a short drive away from family and maybe it's been a busy week so we haven't seen each other but no, actually I'm 900 miles from everyone I know and it… Continue reading Is this real? (Yes, I think so)…
TRIANGLE CROSS FINALLY CALLED!! They want us out there *tomorrow*! Which isn't going to happen but STILL! They have an open position for a Mentor and they EVEN have an opportunity for us to work as a team, with married housing facilities! The founder, Jerry? Spoke of his devotion to praying the Liturgy of the… Continue reading We got the call!
Hi baby. 💕 This is your momma. I'm writing to you as a passenger on the back of your daddy's motorcycle, driving home from Cincinnati, Ohio. We've been praying for you during this entire trip, and the last several months, practically every night. St Anne, our Blessed Mother's mama, has been helping us pray for… Continue reading Letter to my future baby
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal. {John Eldredge} Rex and I, and even Jackson, have been given many gifts. Some physical, but many many in the form of graces: tiny and large tangible graces of which I am confident are the results of unwavering prayer and petition said… Continue reading Allowing our wounds to heal
It is so hard to cuddle these little boys and beg internally for my own. It is my first day back to being a nanny after two weeks of silence and grief and loneliness, and my body feels separate from my mind. I somehow remember how to smile and say thank you and give directions… Continue reading The New “Normal”.
"Although we all need to recognize our powerlessness, there’s a special reason that pregnancy makes you even more painfully aware of how much you can’t control. It’s because trust, more than anything else, is what a mother has to teach her child, and if she is listening closely, she will be learning how to trust… Continue reading Surrendering my powerlessness to God
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