Balancing Multiple Children

Moms of multiple kids: Do you ever feel like when you’ve finally accomplished great things with one kid, you realize it’s at the expense of another? Several months ago I sensed frustration in our youngest boy and we were struggling with potty training. It became my focus and I’m happy to report we made great …

Home

I’ve come to believe *home* can be both where you are and where you’ve been. A beautiful combination of past, present and future with a huge emphasis on present. My social media accounts will be taking on a new look as I navigate my way down a road to discovery. Transplanted from Colorado to North …

I’m a runner

I’m not sure when it happened. Maybe it was gradually over time....me becoming a runner. A runner away. I tried out for Cross Country my senior year of high school and I learned quickly.....well that....God didn’t gift me with fast feet. But emotionally....spiritually....I was FAST. Quick to run away from anything threatening....uncomfortable...scary. North, South, left, …

A New Song

Do the birds know something I don't yet know? I can hear it in their cheerful song. Never missing a sunrise. The opportunity to sing anew; to skip along linked arm in arm with a melody. Not versed in scripture or reading, but need they be? In Psalms we read of new joy coming with …

My Quiet Place

There’s a place aloft the Colorado National Monument that may as well have a spot carved out, about the width of my jeans.....labeled, “Lakin was here.” In those early days as a single mother, when all that mattered was off on a visit to her dad’s- this is where I landed. In an attempt to …