Oh Mama!

I’m so glad you’re here! Let me take a moment to introduce myself. I’m Mama to six kids. Although they were all knee-cap sized at one time, they are now grown. I have one left in high school, and he’s a junior.

My mama experience has spanned almost every form of motherhood you could list: stepmama, bio (or natural, as they now say) mama, foster mama, adoptive mama, fur mama, second-mama (you know, to those friends of theirs), spiritual mama. I’ve also been through almost every mamahood experience you can list: abortion, miscarriages, and in January 2021, I joined the society of mamas none of us wants to: grieving mama. We lost our 19-year-old son, Caleb.

But this site isn’t just about me and my mama life. It’s about you and your mama life too.

I wanted to create a safe space where mamas can come together in fellowship to find joy, encouragement, and inspiration in the daily chaos of motherhood. A place where y’all will know you are not alone in this mama life with all its ups and downs. That you are seen, understood, and worthy of love and respect.

So grab a seat, your drink of choice (no judgement here – I’m a bourbon girl myself), and let’s hold sacred space together.

As little girls, many of us dreamed of Prince Charming, white picket fences, a career that would fulfill us, and being mamas to our sweet babies. We had perfect visions of our future life. Unfortunately, as most of us have discovered by now, life is not perfect.

Prince Charming isn’t always likeable or easy to live with. White picket fences get muddied and break. Careers take hours of hard work that leave us empty and exhausted. And those sweet babies suck life out of us from conception (I lost teeth and a gall bladder to mine).

Motherhood, just like life, comes with all sorts of ups and downs. Ecclesiastes 3 says we can expect seasons of life, death, and everything in between. In my personal experience, marriage and parenting has brought laughter and tears, dancing and mourning, gains and losses, silence and too many words, even war and peace.

Can you relate. Mama?

If so, I hope you’ll hang out with me for a while. We mamas don’t have to fall apart, our marriages don’t have to fall apart, and our kids don’t have to fall apart. We can find solutions to the chaos that threatens to destroy us from the inside out (or the outside in). I know. My marriage has survived, most of my kids have survived, and I have survived the bombs of life.

This site is all about helping you find peace in the chaos
so you can live the joy-filled life you’ve always wanted.

Maybe you’re a new mom who believes you’re going to be awesome at this motherhood thing.

I was there once.

Maybe you’re on your third child, and you remember everything your parents taught you about marriage and parenting and managing a household. But you’re living paycheck to paycheck and you argue with your husband
over the finances every payday. Your kids are bickering nonstop. The dishes and laundry have piled up.
And you feel like you’re failing … and losing your identity, your heart, and your mind …
and you want to give up even though you don’t want to give up. You need some hope.

I’ve been there too.

Maybe you’re to the point where you’re shuffling your teenagers from school
to band practice or sports practice or theater rehearsals to after-school jobs.
Their moods change as frequently as you used to change their diapers.
And you stand by, observing them as they break every rule you’ve ever written for them
because they claim they need to experience life for themselves. Your heart breaks,
but you know they have to learn not only that every decision they make has a consequence,
but that those consequences affect everyone around them too.

Hello. I’m right beside you.

Maybe your kids are grown and out. Or maybe they’ve returned for a season.
Or maybe you feel like you can’t get them to move out for the life of you.

I get that too.

Let’s encourage one another in mothership!
I’m so glad you’re here Mama!

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You can find personal encouragement, helpful information about faith, family, and relationships,
and testimonies from women who’ve been where you are.

Be sure to come back and visit often!