by Emily Wierenga | Oct 18, 2013 | children, cooking, family, home, house, Martha Stewart, mother-guilt, motherhood, pinning, Pinterest
The cookie jar is empty.The laundry, piled six loads high on the dryer and the boys won’t sit through homeschool. I didn’t sleep well last night and I haven’t had my coffee and all I can think about is needing to make those cookies. Because... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 16, 2013 | #imperfectprose, #miracleformaverick, child, Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Families, imperfect prose link-up, Maverick, Stollery Hospital, video
I met Maverick and his mother for the first time this past Friday.I knew of them, of course, as Maverick was in the same hospital as my nephew Lucas, and I had interacted with Rachel for weeks online, but this was the first time I got to hug her, to touch... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 14, 2013 | (in)courage, #miracleformaverick, ann voskamp, auction, charity, child, Congential Heart Disease, fundraiser, giveaway, Gussy Sews, holley gerth, Jeanne Oliver, Krafty Kash, Lisa Leonard, StudioJRU
In this photo, Maverick’s mommy is holding him for the first time in two months. She’s just been told by doctors that she is probably going to lose him. It will be the first of many times Maverick will defeat the odds. #miracleformaverick My friend’s... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 11, 2013 | changing lives, church, good news, miracle, miracle for maverick, surprise
(All of my prints, including this one, are 50% off on my Etsy site for a limited time only. Click on the image above for more info.) ***Listen close, friends….We’re going to be gathering together here on Monday, a whole lot of us — a... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 10, 2013 | A Stolen Life, brennan manning, courage, faith, God, hope, letting go, memoirs, sad stories, shelly miller
I was reading the memoir, A Stolen Life. I kept putting it down and then picking it up and saying how hard it was to read, and my husband asked, “Why do you then? Why do you read such sad stories?”I didn’t know the answer until I was standing on the...