by Michele-Lyn Ault | Feb 6, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
I am standing on my cold slate 4×4 space in my laundry room, folding Husband’s shorts out of the dryer. In the background I hear the television he is watching with our toddler, who has gotten her second wind for the night, playing in the background. It is a...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jan 30, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
I was embarrisingly cranky this week. Toddler was pin-cushion fussy. The kind of fussy that I feel like I am the pin-cushion, and she is the pin. My boy was sick all week. Husband was out of town. I found myself telling my eldest, “I do not know how to parent her,”...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jan 25, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Parenting
She wakes early. She’s got an early Friday morning class. It’s her first day of the second semester of her dual enrollment in college early. She is a young woman now, but that doesn’t stop me from calling out, “What’s number one?”...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jan 23, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
As I walk out my days crumbs get caught between my desperately in-need-of-a-pedicure toes. My very thin hair, still growing back from losing after baby number 4, unwashed going on 5 days, is still in a bun that my mama thinks is cute. For miles each day, I pace the...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jan 8, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts
This past summer a friend, and another, and then another suggested I check out Ann Voskamp’s blog Aholyexperience.com. So I thought I should. At the same time discovered she had written a book. A few trusted friends, who have similar passions in life as my own,...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Dec 13, 2011 | Counting 1000 Gifts
Today is our 14th marriage anniversary and I am thankful… 31. I never have to wonder if he loves me. 32. I did not know what love from a man would be, but upon meeting 17 years ago, until today and counting, he has shown me and loves me as the Word teaches and...
