Can you believe we are just a few short days away from August? August has always held such a special place in my heart; it’s my birthday month, the golden tail-end of summer, and the home of one of my absolute favorite blogging traditions: Blogust! For years now, spending every single weekday of August right here with…

Team Wesley got to enjoy a full week on the beautiful beach at the Isle of Palms in South Carolina this year. A sweet member of our church family let us borrow her place so we could get away from the city, unplug, and soak up all of the sun! The kids are already asking to go back! Although I left my phone behind, my h…

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionles…

Look, Mom, I’m being consistent! I told myself to write/read/blog this month, but I’m letting the day guide me as to when that will happen. So far, I read my Bible this morning after giving the baby her breakfast while waiting for my company to arrive. And now, after the lunch bunch are settling down, I am here writin…

What happened to Blogust? A rough start turned into one unexpected setback after another. I had such high hopes and good intentions to get back into writing consistently, but my time to do such things seem few and far between what I thought it would be. I already knew two things for certain: I am good at making a plan…

I woke at 4:50 a.m. this first day of August, to my youngest crying because she was hungry. I vividly remember her older brother waking early one morning when he was around her age because he had to have a banana. I was able to get her to sleep with the promise of waffles once the sun woke up and it was breakfast tim…