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After years of fighting back, this mom found a way to stop yelling and start parenting the way she really wants.

It seems to me that sometimes the hardest things in life are the ones that bring us closest to heaven.

My default is all-or-nothing. I want to volunteer at church? I’m gonna sign up for everything and do it all. I feel overwhelmed about keeping memories for the kids? No one gets a baby book at all.

I’m in the throes of so many things, like raising four tween daughters, loving an imperfect man imperfectly, trying to figure out what a career as a writer looks like, settling into my 9th lifelong state (5th in 13 years of marriage—and no, we’re not military), all while trying to discern God’s will for my life.

The idea for Adventures with the Saints took some time to really coalesce in my brain. I’ve always wanted to write books, yet I'll admit that children’s chapter books aren’t what I’ve imagined creating since I was a child.

A big part of the process when creating an LLC is deciding what to name it. I knew that step one of this new venture was actually creating the LLC, but when it came time to select a name - something I will be stuck with for the (hopefully very long) life of my business - I stopped short.

My whole life I have told anyone who would listen that I never want to start and run my own business. “I don’t have an entrepreneurial bone in my body,” I would say. Yet, God has taken my life and thrown me into uncharted, unplanned territory, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

I know that for many people, something like starting a blog doesn’t warrant a, well, blog post, but this is where I am today. God has started me (and my husband) down this unexpected path…