mikacreates

Sis, everything started to change when I finally reached a point where I couldn’t keep pretending I was okay. I remember the moment. The tears came. Not the little “I’m having a rough day” tears. I mean the kind of tears that come when you’ve been holding everything together for so long, and your body finally says, “I can’t carry this anymore.” I started searching. I Googled the feelings I was experiencing as a mom and wife because I needed to know… “Is it just me?” “Am I the only one...

GIRL! Laundry used to be one of those chores I absolutely could not stand. That and the bathrooms… but today we’re talking about the never-ending mountains and valleys that used to run my whole household. I stayed overwhelmed because it felt like no matter how much I did, there was always more staring right back at me. For a while, I just shrugged it off like, “Well, this is life.” We lived out of baskets of clean clothes. Dump them on the bed, grab what you need, and throw the rest back in...

Choosing to Walk in Wisdom as a Busy Mom and Wife It was tough—being the referee of fighting kids and deciding what’s what every single day. I was always concerned about making the best decisions for my family, about whether I was choosing wisely, about how my words and actions would affect my kids and my marriage. The guilt was real, and some days it felt like I was managing a million little crises and trying to keep everybody from crashing out. It brought to mind Solomon and the story of...