I have always been a reader. In first grade I got caught hiding a novel behind my math book. (In retrospect, that moment was quite accurate foreshadowing of my academic future.) I was infamous in …
How to Do Nothing
All three of my kids are now in school (!) and so sometimes I really look forward to Monday mornings, when I can finally GET THINGS DONE. Anyone else relate? Recently, I had a week planned where I was …
It’s Fine: Keeping Christmas Meaningful and Manageable
All of a sudden it's November, that runaway train season of the year where time hurtles uncontrollably toward Christmas. Every year it's the same for me. I feel slightly confused by the Christmas …
It’s Fine: Keeping Christmas Meaningful and ManageableRead More
Organizing Your Paperwork
It’s a new year and I’m celebrating with a new look to my website! The people over at Stormhill Media and I have been working on this for months and I’m so excited by the results. Can’t wait to hear …
Find Your Flow
When I speak to groups of moms with young children, I ask them to close their eyes and think of the last time they felt themselves relax into the moment so much that they lost all sense of …
One Easy Way to Simplify Family Life
This time of year many of us start to think about simplicity. Practicing Christian simplicity is about doing less or having less in order to focus more on God. I think many of us want to better …
Digital Detox: Four Ways to Stay Unplugged at Home
My last post was about our week away from technology at my husband's family cabin and how much we appreciated the silence and a change to do a little bit of digital detox. And then we came back …
Three Goals for a Simpler Summer
School ended on Friday, and we are now officially on summer vacation, as my 4-year-old keeps excitedly reminding us. We celebrated with a family trip to the drive-in to see How To Train Your …
More God, Less of Everything Else
As I've been talking to groups and traveling around a bit to promote Mom Seeks God, I've been struck by the hunger I'm seeing for spiritual practice, for connection with God. Yet at the same time, I …
