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Motherhood is a Marathon. Let’s run together.

Hi, I’m Emily. I am a homeschool mother of six. When I am not wiping butts or sweeping up cheerios, which is most of the time, I write my thoughts on life and motherhood here.

Making Kids in Our Image

My kids do not look like me. I mean, there are some traces of the fact that I am, in fact, their mother. Their big smiles, long eyelashes, and the stubborn cowlick on the right side of their heads bear witness to the fact that it was indeed I who carried them around for nine…

Not Home for Christmas

Christmas Hope for Exiles and Wanderers “I think I’m homesick,” I said to my daughter one day. It felt strange to say as we were, in fact, standing in our home. Home was no longer really home though. We weren’t there to stay. We were only there to grab a few things after smoke detectors…

Needy and Unashamed

House Fires and Peeling the Onion of Need It’s been a little over a month since we were awakened by smoke detectors in the wee hours of the morning, going from sleepy irritation to wide-eyed alarm and action in just a matter of minutes. As a PSA, sometimes your smoke detector is going off because…

Faith in Seeds

When I was a kid, I decided to grow an apple tree. I munched on an apple snack and then pulled the seeds out and held them in my palm. I was enchanted by the idea of a tree springing from the tiny thing in my hand. So, I took my little seed outside and…

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