Lessons Learned in Family Future-Finding
As I ponder on this past year, "transition" is the word that comes to mind. Whereas 2017 was brutal and refining, 2018 has felt like a pivot away from that intensity and a step forward to what we hope will be an empowering 2019. Here are some of the biggest transitions we experienced.
“Just as doctors do not de-anesthetize a patient in the midst of authorized surgery to ask him again if the surgery should be continued, so, after divine tutoring, we agreed to come here and to submit ourselves to certain experiences; it was an irrevocable decision.”
It's been almost two weeks since Peyton has joined our family and I am just now acknowledging that I have been in denial about my healing. I haven't slowed down. I have attended craft fairs, gone out to lunch, grocery shopped, taken walks, cleaned the house, decorated for Christmas...the list goes on. The problem is, …
Continue reading No Rest for the Restless: My Postpartum Healing Process (or lack thereof)
I am so grateful to have been blessed to participate in such a symbolic event as childbirth - and am even more grateful to our Savior who performed the penultimate act of love on our behalf - the act that childbirth emulates - the infinite atonement.
All moms are working moms - the only difference being if they are working inside or outside of the home. But the choice of where we as women choose to work can bring up internal conflicts that can be challenging to deal with. Here are my notes-to-self on managing the struggle.
It feels like a luxury to be writing again. I've missed it, if only for the little bit of sanity and release it affords me. But with my calling I didn't feel I had sufficient time or energy to devote to much other than the calling itself, work and my family. It's nice to find …
Last Wednesday, Mickayeen and I met with our new bishop for the first time. The Stake had just reorganized ward boundaries and as we had previously been in the largest ward in the Stake, we anticipated being moved to another ward. Bishop was executing his calling impeccably as he promptly scheduled get-to-know-you visits with all …
