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.
The Accounting of Suffering
It’s me. Hi. I’m back from the abyss, it’s me.Okay, it wasn’t really an abyss. More like a vortex. A vortex of moving and a last minute transition for our kids from full-time homeschool to a university-model school. I’ve meant to sit down and write a hundred times the last few months. What’s stopped me?…
When God Leads You to Bitter Waters
I stood in church a few weeks ago singing the words of a song I’ve sung many times before. “One word from you. Things change on your authority.” Normally, these words would bring me comfort, but all of a sudden, as my mind settled on an ongoing struggle with one of my kids, my mouth…
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…
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The Motherhood Marathon 