by Emily Wierenga | Aug 10, 2012 | advice, cooking, disorder, eating, food, gardening, health, how-to, intuitive eating, nutrition, tips
i know what you’re thinking… who feeds their kid cheesies? on the bed? on white sheets? and cupcakes? at bedtime, really? i do. i allow my kids to eat “junk” food sometimes, because i never want food to rule my life like it once did. i never... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 4, 2012 | barge parties, camp, family, fear, freedom, midnight swims, rockridge canyon, son, toddler, woman, zip line
we’re leaving RockRidge Canyon tomorrow, heading home, and we’re leaving behind this zip line and barge parties and midnight swims.and this camp has reminded me i’m a woman, not just a mother or a wife, and has let me laugh louder than i have in a... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 1, 2012 | birthday, dessert, eating disorder, fear, flower, food, garden, hope, love, mum, she loves magazine, woman
She always made me carrot cake, from scratch, on my birthday. It was the one dessert I’d let myself eat because it tasted like love.Mum would stand in the kitchen, August wind blowing through gingham curtains, her apron on, mixing, and she always looked a little sad,... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 31, 2012 | eating disorder, God, hungry, prodigal magazine, starving
Funny how being thin is so important until you realize it accomplishes nothing but hunger. I wish I’d known this before I tried to starve myself to death.I wish I could have known how good and beautiful I was in spite of my mushroom-cut and big-rimmed plastic glasses.... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 30, 2012 | abandonment, belief, bond, children, faith, family, forever, forgiveness, hope, love, parenting
i’m singing the lord is my shepherd this morning while spooning kasher baby cereal and he looks at me with eyes that say, i trust you mommy. and i know, without a doubt, in that moment, that i will never leave him.he will leave me, yes. but i will never leave... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 29, 2012 | camp, eternal, forgiveness, grace, laughter, life, love, relationships, sarah styles bessey, tea, young life
what is it that makes life worth living?we sit on the couch in the young life lodge with cups of tea, and we laugh like people do, and we’re blog friends, sarah and i, but now we’re real friends, too. she’s come to visit me here. at camp, where trent... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 22, 2012 | aids, bible, book, cancer, children, colorado shootings, dad, greatest, journey, love, message, mum, parents, poverty, salvation, story
we didn’t get along but i wanted to be like him.every morning without fail my dad would bow on the carpet and pray to a God i longed to see, and he read his bible and we weren’t allowed to disturb him.mum would scribble bible verses on little pieces of... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 20, 2012 | a deeper story, boys, differences, gender, girls, laugh your way to a better marriage, marriage, men, sex, similarities, women
well, besides the obvious, they are innumerable. for example, did you know men have “nothing boxes”? mental boxes, in which they sit and do, well, nothing? trent and i learned this while watching laugh your way to a better marriage, and women cannot have... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 18, 2012 | babies, breakfast, cancer, chocolate toast, flooding, God, hard, love, miracles, mum, toast
just thought you all could use a little laugh :) but seriously, this is what breakfast looks like, here. chocolate toast, or homemade strawberry jam toast, or eggos and blueberry syrup, on the deck. and yes, sometimes with babies in the nude. (begging grace as... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 13, 2012 | books, children, literature, reading, salvation, story, writing
three things i hope of my children: that they will love God with all of their heart, soul and mind; that they will love their neighbors as themselves; and that they will love to read.because books are doorways to the soul, and when the world is unfriendly, books say,...