Made Frank

If you missed Part 1, check it out here for the background. Over the last couple days, I’ve been hoping this whole idea of “rehoboth,” or open space, has been as life-giving and freeing for some of you, as it has been for me. Daily, I’m seeing more and more the spaces I fill with […]

I’m sitting here in my cute little office nook under the stairs.  Space heater on my feet, Topo Chico bottle on a coaster, wrapped in my new Pendleton wool blanket shawl.  Video baby monitor crackling on it’s last leg.  Dang it Jude.  Go to sleep, d-it. And I’m tired.  Beyond tired. Bone weary.  The kind that […]

A friend of mine asked the other day, “what is the difference between choosing thankfulness or only being thankful when I feel like it.”  Simple question, really.  But crap. My thoughts were this: Choosing thankfulness is freaking hard, because I think I’m entitled to more. Ouch. I’m entitled to have a limitless grocery budget AND the […]

I’m not sure how many of you live close to home or family.  Or how many of you are transplants like me. Regardless, I know that it can be very hard to be away from family. This certainly kicked into high gear once we had the boys.  The reality of only seeing grandparents, aunts, uncles […]