Noah's Rainbow

  February 11, 2023 To my Rainbow Henry, You are two years old! Any entire year has flown by in the blink of an eye and you have officially left the baby stage of your life. You are becoming a rambunctious, smart, funny, sweet toddler and we are just in love with watching you grow and learn and show off your personality. It is truly a delight to be your mama and I’m so grateful that God has blessed me with the honor of raising you, little boy! Where to begin with all the things that have happened this year?! The last time I wrote you a letter, you were cruising all the furniture and mostly just babbling, and now you are running and chatting up a storm! In March, we went on a Spring Break trip with Gammaw, Pup Pup, Uncle John and Aunt Denise to North Carolina. You had taken some wobbly steps independently but you were by no means walking as your primary mode of getting around. By the time we headed home, you were confidently walking around the beach house! It was astonishing to see ...

Listen to this post here      Feeling unworthy is something I’ve struggled with for a long time. I wasn’t very popular when I was in school, so I felt unworthy of friendship and attention, particularly in high school. I had a lot of friends that treated me poorly and I had crushes on a lot of guys who were very unkind to me. Most of my boyfriends and guys I dated through high school, college, and my adult life walked all over me and then rejected me like yesterday’s newspaper. My undergraduate degree is in Broadcast Journalism, which can be a ruthless business to try to break into. I killed many trees sending out resumes trying to get a job, and heard back from almost none of them. Out of the two interviews I got, one of them told me they intended to offer me the job after checking my references, then sent me an email a few days later saying they’d hired an internal candidate. When I finished my Master’s in Education, I killed another round of trees sending out resu...