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Saying “I Love You” through clenched teeth – My Messy Beautiful

Four Generations

It is a beautiful cycle: that of being first a daughter, then a mother, and then a grandmother.  A cycle steeped in love, understanding, tears, comfort, joy, pain, fear, pride, beauty, and bound by even more love.  Ideally. When that cycle is broken, we become broken daughters who become broken mothers. Right now I’m right […]

Confessions of a (terrible) housekeeper

It has been said that “confession is good for the soul”.  There is a strong and encouraging movement in our society to stop pretending, to stop faking it, and to just be ourselves. We see it in national advertising campaigns like Dove® – showcasing real beauty and “loving the skin you’re in”. We see it in blogs […]

My Daily Bread…

I love bread. I really love bread. Almost as much as this lady loves bread… But this year for Lent I decided to give up bread. Lent is a relatively new concept to me.  I grew up in a Baptist church and was not privy to the liturgical calendar followed closely by other Christian faith […]