Soaring and Stillness: Life with the Chickadees

It’s been forever and a day since I last checked in (when I logged into this account it said two years and one day, to be exact). I’ve been preparing the girls to someday take flight, which has consumed minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and, apparently, years. It’s a process that is full of perspective and breathing and growing.   I’ll share more about the chickadees and their process in the future, but these next few posts will focus on different topics entirely. To be honest, I’ve found it difficult to be in an online space without friend requests and boundaries. It’s vulnerable and open and real. I’ve been all of these things, but on a much smaller scale and with a limited audience, so please bear with me as I take baby-steps back here. I am honored to be part of the Choose Joy launch team.  I am.  But honestly? This is hard. Glennon says all the time “we can do hard things”. I hard core adopted that mantra as I geared up to read. The hard is i...

I love  the concept of one little word by Ali Edwards .  LOVE IT. I spent a great deal of time at the close of 2010 and beginning of 2011 deciding which  word I should choose for the year... I hemmed I hawed I prayed I desired to choose a word that would remind me, encourage me, challenge me. In my heart, I knew  the term that should be put into practice...I fought it. Tooth and nail. I did not desire to use this word in my every day, in the hard. I'd always prided myself on being a go-with-the-flow gal. This one word? It would show the inner workings of my heart and challenge me to not just say I was okay with things but, rather, BE okay with them. For.  Real. My word? ACCEPT Accept. One little word that rocked me to the core in 2011. I thought  that my word would relate mostly to my health. That's what I planned  on it relating too.  You know, because, um, I'm the one in charge.  Wink.   A...