Metaphors are extremely helpful for someone like myself who is very visual. I enjoy connecting small pieces of life to bigger themes. Christ is described in the Bible through many word pictures. He is called our Anchor. The Light of the World. Our Rock. Our Shield. The Lamb. The Lion. The Way, The Truth ,…
I love Paul David Tripp’s insights. He really puts big ideas into “bite size”, clear terms. One such idea I heard from his podcast recently I really felt like sharing. It hit home in my heart today as I work on income tax returns and take a lunch break to write. To refocus. And to…
Hi, friends. Kaeli here about nine months postpartum. If you haven’t read about my psychotic episode, please feel free to do so in my post “In the Darkness, God will keep me.” This space here is to shed some light on postpartum depression. Or what I’d call the very ugly, unwanted guest. I was home…
As many of you hopping on here might not be my FB friends, I should start with some background. Postpartum psychosis background. Something I never thought would happen to me and my family, but did. A most unique and somewhat life altering event. In December of 2022, our fourth child, our daughter, was born. She…
Finding out we were expecting a fourth (another girl to boot) was just the best of the best. It was a mountaintop feeling; a rush of excitement for me to think about adding to our family and rounding out our “team” with two girls/two boys. I was ready to dig out the girl stuff again…
Our third was a surprise in the gender department. We, actually just me really because Dan said he didn’t care, decided to wait on finding out what this tie breaker baby would be: team girl or team boy. It was April 2018 when I found out I was pregnant. January of that year I had…
“It’s a boy. He’s waving hi on the screen…see that, Mom and Dad?” A boy? The ultrasound tech at 20 weeks had delivered news that made me smile so big and made my heart skip a little bit inside my chest. I was a little scared to think about raising a boy. Girls were familiar….
It’s been on my heart lately to get some words on a page regarding the birth of our three children. We went from one to three kids in a flash. By the time our youngest was born, we had a 3 1/2 year old daughter and a just over 2 year old son, and it…
I have a 4 year old boy. He’s a passionate, caring, strong willed, emotion filled little guy. I won’t lie to you that he pushes me to my limits at times (he’s not alone. The rest of them do too.) It’s just that he has a capacity to become very, very upset in a very,…
