by Michele-Lyn Ault | Feb 14, 2012 | Motherhood
There’s something wonderful about chocolate fondue. I had other words I was planning on posting for Valentine’s Day, and all day, I searched for time to write. Saying yes to writing, saying yes to peering at the backlit laptop screen, allowing my heart to...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Feb 13, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
It does not end, this transformation by grace, does it? I have incredible days that I live as I love the people God has given me to spend the moments of my days with. But then other days, I feel as if the breath has been knocked out of me. Although, these days are...
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 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 6, 2012 | Blogging and Writing, Motherhood
I am dashing back and forth trying to get as much cleaning done before the little ones return with dad, and the older ones wake. I am sweating and I am scrubbing and I have not eaten breakfast. I am grabbing my opportunity, because Toddler these days, does not allow...
