March has been filled with an anticipation of the changing season but also the heaviness of circumstance. Townes has grown increasingly more curious about when he was born, mainly due to the fun parties all the kids have at school on their birthdays (which we had a...
Tonight, I was just mulling about. New Year’s Eve with very young children looks different than it used too (maybe). Who am I kidding – since College Football moved to the Playoff Era I have spent most New Year’s Eves for a decade watching football all day and...
In some ways the beginning of 2023 seems so far away but yet when I realize its #GivingTuesday AGAIN, I am a little stunned. How? It came so fast! And here I find myself yet again, contemplating time. Time is slow. Time is fast. Time sifts me sometimes like a bag of...
Often over the years, I’ve found myself pondering God’s love, his grace. I’ve asked myself what does it look like to fully experience his love overflowing, to feel as though you are walking in his grace abounding? Have you? I know it happens, Townes’s miracles upon...
In some ways, it is hard to believe it’s been two months since Ella Jane made her debut! It has been a sweet sweet time with her, and she has proved to be not only a good, laid back and content baby, but shhhhhh, don’t tell many, a good sleeper too. The first two...
Ella Jane Stephensentered the world on Thursday, July 20thWeight: 8 lbs 2 ozLength: 19 3/4 Townes is proud and smitten with his "baby sister". He has wanted to hold her often and help me feed her a bottle. He frequently places his hand around her tiny...
Last summer on multiple occasions with no prompting or explanation, Townes would look at me earnestly and say, “Mama, I am waiting.” I would look back at his big blue eyes with a multitude of my own thoughts…what are you waiting on…More snacks…Another show to...
Townes has entered a stage we have coined “No Nap Townes.” I don’t know why or how it has happened but suddenly our toddler apparently has ideas of his own for nap time or quiet time. The best part of all is when you ask him, “did you take a nap today?” Townes, “Not...
Observed in April each year, National Donate Life Month helps raise awareness about organ donation and to honor those that have saved lives through the gift of donation.With the publishing of Ridiculously Hopeful, we not only share the...
While words exist to describe the rollercoaster of these last 36 hours, even then, these words fall short to express the utter heartbreak and devastation, we as a Nashville community have undergone. Questions loom unanswered. Explanations never to...