By Stefanie Boyles
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
During my first pregnancy, I was blissfully ignorant. I was a new nurse in a competitive nurse residency program. I studied cardiac rhythms instead of poring over parenting books. Our immediate friends didn’t have kids, so the topics of our conversations were more often good books and under appreciated hole-in-the-wall restaurants, not the million and one choices involved in parenthood. …
By Melissa Dennis
Originally published in Be Still Magazine, issue 11
I’ve done things in my short life thus far that seemed at one point to be the most significant landmarks—even highlights due to the event’s noteworthiness. Running the Great Wall of China marveling at God’s power and glory, laying my head to rest on a concrete floor in India with a room full of orphans.…
By Stefanie Boyles
Staff Writer for the Daily Grace Co.
What did you want to be when you were a kid?
When I was a young girl, I knew in my heart that my greatest desire was to be a mom.…
By Jana White
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
I’m writing this post to clear the air among many Christian moms out there. There is a phenomenon among Christian moms that puts two sets of moms on opposite sides and we have chosen to subtly wage war against one another.…
By Rachel Kang
Originally published in Be Still Magazine, Issue 9.
You bring the baby home, snuggle her tight, and wrap her warm. You nestle your nose into her neck, over her forehead, across her cheek. She wiggles and squirms, breathes a faint and innocent sigh, all the while your insides melt and, altogether, you come undone.…
By Kristyn Perez
Lamp and Light leader for The Daily Grace Co.
The other day I asked my kids if they knew how many hairs they had on their heads. They answered with typical 4-year old answers, “A lot! Is it 50 mama?…
By Stefanie Boyles
Staff writer for The Daily Grace Co.
I am a non-conventional pastor’s wife – my husband is an Active Duty Chaplain in the U.S. Army. He preaches most Sunday evenings to students in one of the toughest military leadership courses in the world – Ranger School. …
By Ashley Price
Guest Contributor
It was two weeks after welcoming our sweet baby into the world that I began crying out of the blue while snuggling him all curled up on my chest. I thought maybe I had a touch of baby blues and blamed it on all the hormone changes and being overtired.…
Avoiding a meltdown at any given moment in any given place.
Waiting for an hour while toddler causally eats breakfast. lunch. and dinner. (I thought I ate slow!)
A tantrum in the middle of a store or restaurant.
A curt remark to my toddler after she asks for a snack for the hundred millionth time within 20 minutes.…