(Trauma Made Me Strong) I didn’t know bravery until I became a mother. When I held my firstborn — my Harry — I was twenty-four, terrified, exhausted, and cracked open in every direction a woman can break and still be breathing. Seventeen hours of labor. Two and a half hours of pushing. A nurse fresh […]

Motherhood has a way of teaching you truths you didn’t ask to learn.Hard ones. Clarifying ones. The kind that arrive wrapped in crisis. One of the biggest lessons Mom’s Day Moments have taught me is this: The people you expect to show up often don’t. And the people you never expect to show up… show […]

Recently, I sat courtside watching my eight-year-old daughter fight her heart out for first place on a basketball court she had never stepped onto before this season. Weeks earlier, she told me, “Mommy, I just feel it (basketball) inside of me—I want to play.” And she meant it. By the fourth game, she made her […]

 (A Christmas Letter for those who love us, those who judge us, and the flying monkeys who simply cannot mind their ministry) If you’re here because you scanned the QR code on our Christmas card… welcome.You either love us, you’re nosy, or someone sent you this saying,“Lord have mercy, she posted WHAT?” Whichever one you […]

On Friday the 13, 2015 I found myself in the ER of Texas Children’s Hospital at the persistence of an urgent care pediatrician. In those long hours of waiting, testing, and trying my hardest to put meaning to the concerned looks exchanged from technicians and nurses, my mommy feelers were on high alert. Something was […]