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A New Wish
January the First, 2015 Before the children were whisked off to bed this New Year evening, we gathered around a chair at the kitchen table and opened the mason jar that had been sitting on our computer...
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Peace for the Precious
Jen Hatmaker posted an article this week about the dangers of “precious” parenting, encouraging moms everywhere to take a page out of the 1970’s parenting manual and let go of the fabricated magic...
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Greatness.
He stopped by after work today to take Gideon to the pond to work on “the clubhouse”. They were gone for who knows how long, but it wasn’t long enough. It never is, and when Gid came back home from a...
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The Day I Took a Walk
On June 11, 2005, I took a walk. My daddy’s arm was intertwined with mine and, as we passed by the long rows of white chairs holding our lifelong family members and friends in the backyard of our...
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The Day I Took a Walk – Part Two
Read Part One here ~ As the day of our 10th anniversary drew closer, the details of the special celebration we’d decided upon began to take shape, bit by bit. I bought a dress. I gathered up some...
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Hope for the Introvert
Hi. I’m Mrs. Gore, and I am an introvert. If I didn’t already know that from a fun little personality quiz my FFA instructor administered to our class when I was in high school, I would certainly know...
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You Are Worth It: a letter to my family
A year or more ago…maybe two…I had an idea. I suppose I could be categorized as a creative person, and while I don’t paint or sew or craft, when my heart feels something big, I yearn to DO something...
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Dancing Hearts in Nantucket (Part Four: Union Street Inn)
Welcome back, dear ones, to our nautical trip down memory lane. I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed revisiting this experience, walking through each moment, smelling the smells, tasting the food,...
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Stepping Heavenward with Hormones (and taking your family with you)
I’ve been putting this off and putting this off and I will put it off no more: let’s talk about hormones. People warn you that marriage will be hard. They warn you that being in the workforce will be...
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With this Nail Polish, I Thee Love
I feel like I have walked through every emotion known to woman – or at least most of them – since becoming a mom, but my very lowest points, when closely examined, all seem to be centered around one...
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