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 7, 2013 | bible, children, discipline, doubt, faith, freedom, guilt, judgement, mother-guilt, motherhood, preschool, pride, television, vegetables, working mom
Aiden waves at me from the water. His eyes look green today; other days they’re brown, like his father’s. He blows bubbles and kicks and the teacher leads them out of the big pool and into the kiddie one.I sit with my knees tucked to my chest, watching... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 1, 2012 | author, books, children, conference, father, God, love, mother-guilt, parenting, selling, traveling, woman's role
I’m sitting in the airport, the sun rising, about to head out to the AACC conference and I miss them with a guttural ache.The kind of ache only a mother can know, the kind that connects with an invisible cord, one that doctors can never sever, and they’re probably...