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What I Want My Son to Know About Christmas

by Emily Wierenga | Dec 25, 2013 | brain cancer, childhood, children, christmas, lessons, mum, nativity, the high calling

It’s December 25, 2009. My son is just over a month old in his blue booties, the ones I bought this summer in Italy when I went to Lake Como for a writer’s conference.And I feel like Hannah.Aiden is my miracle child, the one we’ve been praying for the past few years,...

Imperfect Prose Link-Up: The last shall be first (and other lessons my preschooler has taught me)

by Emily Wierenga | Jul 3, 2013 | #imperfectprose, chocolate, faith, Jesus, lessons, motherhood, patience, preschooler, wine

she has contributed out of her lackand her want,putting in all that she had on which to live.(Luke 21: 4)I’m on my second glass of red for the night, and I’m eating chocolate. The kids are all medicated and in bed and Trent is fixed up with a honey and...

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