Humble Handmaid Blog Archives

It's 7:30am on a Saturday morning. I've somehow managed to sneak off to a coffee shop for a few hours today, after some good-natured negotiating with my husband on our weekend activities. Realistically, that is where I am with writing these days: stolen little bits of time every couple of months or ... Read More about My sanity savers right now

Baby Franco #5 is due sometime before Thanksgiving this fall. I'm still wrapping my head around being a mother of five. The day we found out the gender of the baby, we took all the kids into the ultrasound with us. It was quite the production, but worth it. The kids' excitement about finding out ... Read More about ‘Cuz four kids is awesome, but FIVE kids is cooler… {Gender reveal!}

We got back this week from a long, busy family trip, and amid all the work of settling-back-in, I think I needed to receive my marching orders again. I was sitting gloomily at my kitchen table one night earlier this week filling out a hundred to-do's and be-there's and need-to's in my planner, ... Read More about Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way

Earlier this summer, I spent a couple happy weeks imagining my three oldest children all dressed up in little shin guards and cleats, dribbling easily past defenders on a fall Saturday morning. Just like their mom used to as a kid. Fall soccer signups were fast approaching. A friend of mine and I ... Read More about Sometimes going big is going home

Any parent of young children knows what it's like to be interrupted. A lot. Crying newborns. Urgent potty trips. Stomach bugs. Hungry tummies. Big messes. Little-kid squabbles. New pregnancies. Children with a sixth sense for needing something as soon as you get on the phone. He tells us that ... Read More about Girl, interrupted

"But with their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, 'Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!'" -Numbers 21:4-5 I read this verse one day a few weeks ago when I ... Read More about When we’re tired of all this stinkin’ manna…