It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since that surreal day I became paralyzed and spent the whole day in and out of various imaging tests trying to solve the mystery of what happened to me. When my kids talk about those two weeks I was hospitalized, they are so sure it was two months, not weeks! It’s been interesting, as I’ve…
Category: About Me
Nine Months – The Gestation of a New Life
(I started this post right after I hit the 9-month mark on May 24, but it took a while to get it ready to release into the world…) I just hit the 9-month mark the other day and I couldn’t help but think about the comparisons to pregnancy. God designed 9 months as the amount of time the human life takes to become ready for…
Four Months: Life with a Spinal Cord Injury
It’s been four months today since God allowed my life to be shaken to its core. Quite literally. 😉 For the most part, things are settling into the semblance of something fairly predictable. I have constant minor burning pain in my legs. The best way to explain the pain is that burning you feel when your legs get really cold outside for a long time,…
Covering My Head
About a month ago I began covering my head. I’ve kept pretty quiet about it because I’m not a fan of drawing attention to myself, but I’ve had a few people ask me about it, so I figured I’d write a bit about my experience. I have pondered the idea of head covering for a few years and was opposed to it until recently. Back…
An Update on Us
Well, spring is starting to come to Idaho at long last! We had a lovely winter, one we won’t forget. It was full of memories and surrounded by family. In November, we had the honor of adding another member to the extended Rich clan, as Mark’s youngest brother got married. The kids were as cute as can be, all dressed up and thrilled to be…
Six Months of No Blogging
It has been six months since my last entry here! What happened to me? Well, to make a long story short, I decided that living life took priority over writing, and that my kids needed me more than my blog. I know I never wrote frequently, but I always felt like I *should* be writing more – and I struggled with guilt over it. Dumb,…
2013 Year in Review
What a fun year 2013 has been! We traveled a LOT the first half of this year. In February, we traveled to Wisconsin (33 straight driving hours in a minivan with 4 kids!) to be with my family and celebrate the life of my grandfather, who passed away. In April, I took our little crew on our first trip without Mark. We went to Washington…
The Lord Establishes Our Steps
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Proverbs 16:9 Many of you all know that deep in Mark and my heart has always been the desire to build a healthy, vibrant, Messianic community here in the Boise area. In that vein, we built a website to get our name out, hoping that others would find us who were also…
10 Confessions of a “Super Mom”!
Hahaha… I’m chuckling as I write this. Â I’ve recently had a few people comment on how amazing it is that I can parent 5 kids and homeschool them, or have home births, or something like that. Â So I wanted to take a lighter look at my life as a busy mom. Â I give you 10 Confessions of a “Super Mom”… 10. I do NOT…
Introducing Our New Addition!
I’m currently laying in bed next to our beautiful little baby boy, Micah Jonathan. He was born last night, and now I’m going to write my final birth story. **Warning, following is the birth story of our little Micah. There is some typical birth-style graphic content.** Well, first of all, our birth journey – like all journeys – didn’t start here. It started 9 months…