by Emily Wierenga | Oct 3, 2012 | adoption, childbirth, children, glynn young, God, grandchildren, imperfect prose on thursdays, interview, nancy franson, parenting, pregnancy, the high calling
When my kids were young I used to tell them that someday, when they had children of their own, I was going to buy each one of them a pony. It was really more of a threat than a promise, as in:If the two of you don’t stop fighting and getting on my last good nerve, I... 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... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 21, 2012 | bathtime, bedtime, bikes, children, five minute fridays, God, grace, Jesus, kindness, lisa-jo baker, love, outside, parenting, wide
we’re not much for rigid, around here. we like to let the kids dance and jump on the couches and sing at the top of their lungs and make noise. the good kind–the kind full of praise. but when it comes to treating one another, it needs to be in... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 5, 2012 | amazing, art, beer, believers, children, church, community, ed cyzewski, festival, grace, hippies, hymns, imperfect prose on thursdays, parenting, synchroblog, wild goose festival
it’s a collapse of child and mother, the after-supper kind of collapse. we haven’t seen each other all weekend because i’ve been away and we have joey and jin here too. and sometimes this having other people in our home feels a bit like the curtains... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 29, 2012 | cancer, children, flowers, garden, identity, love, mum, needing, parenting, she loves magazine
…As a mother of four boys—two of them my own—I’m trying to need them in the way that Mum needed her flowers, in the way that she needed me when she got cancer. In the way that she would leave messages on my answering machines which consisted mostly of “umm,” and... 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...