Posts Tagged mom
i see you, sweet Mama of big people.
Posted by malindar in Uncategorized on December 26, 2018
i see you there, sweet Mama of big people. i see you riding out this season. mostly hanging on. i see you navigating these new waters. taking the reigns with the big family prep and the busy running around. holding down your own fort, and working around the schedules of the big people now starting […]
sacrifice.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, God, Life, Reflection, Uncategorized on March 2, 2018
in my mind, i am made up of a whole bunch of parts of a person i really want to be. i’m a mom. a writer. a helper. a thinker. a doer. in reality…i struggle with the fact that maybe i’m not really any of those things. i am a mom who finds herself with […]
becoming adult
Posted by malindar in Family Life, Kids, Life, Reflection on June 1, 2016
25 years ago, i graduated from high school. i’m reminded of this number repeatedly…by the fact that i know my class is having a reunion in July…by the fact that Joe graduated 5 years after me, and he celebrates his 20th in July as well…but most notably by the fact that my daughter, who was […]
challenge.
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Fitness, Weight Loss, workout on January 19, 2016
i’ve learned something about myself in the last two days. i may work in my house, and i may have said in the past that getting 10,000 steps a day in my house on a regular basis is impossible. but throw a little friendly competition in my face, and all of a sudden…i can hit 14,000 […]
long hair
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Life, Reflection on September 28, 2015
several problems accompany growing your hair out when you get old. i’m sure you don’t really care, but…yeah, i don’t care that you don’t care anymore. (that’s an upside to getting old.) in January, i stopped cutting my hair. i wasn’t growing it out then. i just wasn’t cutting it. this was a tactic meant […]
failed.
Posted by malindar in Family Life, God, Homeschooling, Kids, Life, Reflection on August 22, 2014
about a year ago, after realizing the depths to which a father can sink, my then-14-year-old daughter blamed God. for everything. everything bad that ever happened in her life, every question she could come up with that flew in the face of everything she had been taught for 14 years, every single, solitary questionable thing. […]
stuff i know now
Posted by malindar in Uncategorized on May 9, 2014
i follow this great blog that always makes me think…her name is Melissa…you should check her out. …she made me think today. twice. posting first about a Mama she saw in the mall, wisely parenting a determined toddler…and then about secrets she knows as a mother. probably secrets she wished she’d known when she started this […]
mothers
Posted by malindar in All About Mindy, Reflection on May 9, 2014
this Sunday is Mother’s Day. yep, two days from now. it will be my 16th as an actual, bonafide Mom. something about that number freaks me out a little. maybe because it’s so freaking close to 20. i don’t know. it struck me this morning that next year will be my twentieth college reunion. good […]
teenagers.
Posted by malindar in Uncategorized on March 5, 2014
so, my most recent quandary? what do i do with a child who has decided she wants nothing to do with God? …the God who allowed her father to choose crime and betrayal…over a relationship with her. …the God who allowed a life of relative luxury to slip through her fingers when that same father […]
on hold.
Posted by malindar in Fitness, Hypothyroid, Weight Loss on January 30, 2014
a month into my most recent (new) workout program (update on P90X3 coming soon)(i’m sure you’re chomping at the bit!!), and i keep glancing at the mirror, expecting something different. there’s this feeling of insanity about once a week when i get very real with myself before changing out of my workout attire (unforgiving stuff, […]
All Is Grace 