“Sandwich! Sandwich! I said make a Stella sandwich! You’re the bread and she’s the meat!!!!” I huffed and yelled after them while trying to run with my youngest in the running stroller behind my other three girls on their bikes. Gone are the days of telling them to keep up on their scooters. Now I’m begging them to slow down so I can keep up. (To be clear, I did not get slower. They just got bigger and faster.) My girls came up with the sandwich analogy. When they ride bikes, my...

It’s so easy to get swept up in ourselves. It’s also completely natural and expected! We have Adam, Eve and that sneaky serpent to thank for our tendency toward sin. The serpent enticed them by offering them something that was too good to be true (because it was). That snake said God was keeping the fruit of the tree of knowledge from them because if they ate of it they would be like God themselves. Lies! The truth is that God was protecting His children and when they fell for the...

There is no greater mom high or mom drain than being intensely needed by your child to fix all her problems and make things right in her world. When they’re babies they are literally dependent on you for survival. Never been more needed (or terrified) in my life than when I took home our first baby girl ten years ago. Then comes a toddler who stumbles, because their little feet can’t keep up with the inertia of their big head, and only mommy can dry those tears. Then off to preschool...