Lately || September 2026

Happy first of October, the very best month! I’m trying my hardest to believe that it’s fall, even though it’s just this week that our daily highs are no longer in the ...

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Daddy Fix It

The crayon snapped in two, unable to withstand the force of the tiny hand repeatedly ramming it onto the surface of a coloring book. It took a second for our two-year-old crayon-killer ...

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Kalinda Joy & Sullivan Luke || From Six to Seven!

Hello, readers! My twins are turning SEVEN years old this week, so I am using this space to document the milestone with some pictures, a letter to my twinsies, and a super ...

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Easy Spiritual Rhythms We Practice With Our Kids

In a recent newsletter, Phylicia Masonheimer noted that when she was growing up, “discipleship started at home and was ‘topped off’ at church, not the other way around.” I love this explanation ...

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Quick Lit + September 2026

It’s Quick Lit day! And I have a shorter roundup for you this month, with a couple titles I actively loathed and a few more I really liked. As always, I’m sharing ...

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28 Small (and Big) Things I’m Grateful for Today

My usual low hum of anxiety has escalated to a fever pitch in recent weeks. That’s not unusual for meโ€”the words “overwhelmed” and “stressed” are MVPs of my daily journal entries. Instead ...

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Lately || August 2026

If August is the Sunday of summer, I’m pretty sure I took a too-long Sunday afternoon nap, because the month drew to a close while I wasn’t paying attention. Now that all ...

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What I Learned This Summerโ€”on Changing Rhythms, Disgusting Maladies, Learning to See My Kids, and More

The new school year with our Classical Conversations co-op started back up a couple of weeks ago. Even though only three months had passed since our last meeting, the kids were all ...

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The Kid In Front of Me

My heart sinks when I read the text: the teenage son of some friends has gotten into trouble. After months of poor decisions, he ran away from home, only to be picked ...

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Nickelson Ryan || A Love Letter to My TWO-Year-Old!

My Dearest Nico Nico, Two years ago today, I was one day shy of 39 weeks pregnantโ€”two weeks more pregnant than I’d ever been before; full of baby and anticipation and excitement ...

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