Some days you want to quit. You may have heard, at some point, of a high-profile “domestic diva” who suddenly just up and left her husband and children and abandoned the lifestyle she’d been preaching. (There have been several in various times and places.) I understand. The thing is, especially in the church, it seems […]
Motherhood May be Exhausting, but it is Not Narrow
A friend sent me the following GK Chesterton quote today, and I really like it. “I can understand how [mothering] might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about arithmetic, and a small career to tell one’s own […]