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My child just threw a full tantrum because I cut her toast into triangles instead of squares. What's the most irrational reason your kid has cried today?

Be honest: Are you a 'stick to the bedtime routine all summer' household, or do the rules completely dissolve the second school lets out?

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The Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

The person doing the work is the one doing the learning. Remember that.

Four years. Four Mother’s Days of either carrying a baby or holding a newborn.

​I look at my three children and realize I never could have dreamed up this life for myself, yet I thank God every single day for the privilege of being their mother. I’m so grateful to have a husband who sees the reality of this journey and stands by me through every bit of it.
​Motherhood is a beautiful complexity.

It is physically demanding, mentally exhausting, and spiritually stretching. I will never pretend it’s easy, because it isn’t—it’s a sacrifice. It is holy work.

​To the moms celebrating, the moms grieving, and the women longing.. Happy Mother’s Day. There is room for all of our stories today. 🤍