Brokenness is a topic of conversation that keeps showing itself to me these days. Whether it’s a bible verse or hours-long conversations with a dear friend, it’s obvious that we all carry brokenness. The bible tells us that broken people are blessed, which is completely counterintuitive to what our culture thinks and our #firstworldproblems. In …
*Fingers crossed I don’t get sued over the title 😉 Last week I took a little trip to my therapists home office up in Argyle, which from where we live seems like it might as well be Oklahoma. Not only that, I was headed up there at 4:30 in the afternoon….so rush hour. It honestly …
Pain is an interesting notion, isn’t it? We use the word to cover all manner of topics: physical, emotional, financial, spiritual; and each person has a specific level of tolerance for pain. Science tells us that women in particular have a higher level of pain tolerance (yes! it’s science!) for such things as birthing babies …
*before I start, I feel like I need to caveat this post by saying the struggle is real….and I don’t mean that in a hashtag or sarcastic way. I mean it’s R.E.A.L. Even today, I can feel the enemy’s physical grasp on my heart. Pulling me down into a spiral of “what ifs” and “I …
Well this was unexpected. Here we are facing this giant again and he seems so much bigger this time. On the phone with Layla’s oncologist yesterday, I told him this feels so much worse than her original diagnosis. He replied “It is”. We thought Wednesday would be a routine MRI, we’d leave with the “all …
Beginnings are awesome. Marriage, babies, graduation, a leap into entrepreneurship – all of these things mean a new start. Beginnings mean hope for the future and endless possibilities, but for some parents new beginnings bring fear. Tomorrow, Layla will begin the 3rd (and hopefully) final chapter in her treatment plan. Every day, for the next …
Tired As A Mother I’m tired y’all. I’m not sure there’s even a word to describe the amount of tired that I am. Exhausted, weary, zonked, enervated (that’s a $5 word!) – none of those seem to do it justice. I’m sure every parent has felt completely exhausted at some point. It usually starts about …
It’s funny how an ordinary day can take a turn in an instant. We’re in the home stretch for Layla’s 30 days of radiation (yay!!) and every Tuesday we also visit our oncologist at Children’s Dallas for an exam. Ya know, listen to her heart, take some blood for counts, check her balance and reflexes …
It was 4:30 am on October 19, 2016. I hadn’t really been asleep at all, but was laying quietly on the hospital couch looking at the clock that had stopped working. In a few hours Layla would be going downstairs to have her skull opened and tumor removed. Skull opened….I kept saying that over and …
Faith is easy…end of blog post. I mean, just have some faith and life will be peaches. Pull out that faith, sprinkle it like fairy dust and you won’t have a care in the world. Right? I remember in high school we used to go on student council retreats to a camp with one of …
