Category: Parenting
On Hamsters and Ash Wednesday
We had the name before we had a pet to give it to. Crabapple. My oldest had deemed it the perfect...
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I have never really considered myself a “baby person”. I wasn’t the one itching to hold a friend’s newborn, desperate to become a mom one day myself, entertaining visions of domestic bliss. When I became a parent to my own baby,...
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Advent Devotional for Kids
A few years ago I wrote a kid’s advent devotional for my two boys. It was written with parents and...
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in Troubling Times, How to Talk to Kids About the Stories We Tell Ourselves
A few nights ago, our family was headed around one of the loops in our neighborhood when I...
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Three Ways to Maximize a Different Kind of Easter This Year
Some of my favorite memories growing up were of Easter Sunday. It could have been because of the...
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The Good News of an Apocalypse
I grew up reading the Left Behind books. Left Behind was a book series based off of the literal...
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40 Day Lent Devo for Kids
With the news of COVID-19 spreading and multiple church school and church closures for the...
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On the Enneagram, Fear, and the College Cheating Scandal
I’ve always had a kind of obsession with personality tests and anything like it. So it was no...
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20 Day Advent for Kids
It’s officially the Christmas season! And a little late in the game this year, I started...
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What I’m [Still] Learning From Balancing Home and Work
There was this picture that showed up on my Facebook timeline a few days ago that nearly knocked...
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How To Talk About Faith When You Aren’t So Sure Yourself
In the Jewish tradition, when someone is named, it’s believed that the essence of who that person...
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How Disappointment Shows Up In Advent
My youngest is perhaps the most confident person I have ever met. He is nothing if not convinced...
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Hi! I’m Sarah
Hi! I’m Sarah, wife to Rodney, mom to Asher and Pace, and writer—although I’m still trying to figure out how to do all three of those things. Sometimes I like books more than people, and all of the time I like French fries more than salad. I live in Georgia but I dream of the mountains.
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