“Can I drink this pool water?” “I’ll just put this in my milk.” “Look! I am climbing!” Parenting two little kids is a very different type of leadership than I’ve practiced in other seasons of life. Two people literally follow me around (or I wear them around) all day. They need me to direct their …
Author Archives: Hannah Frost
Freeing Mary from Martha’s Overcare
“Let’s shut down the blog,” Martha demanded. “We’re hardly using it anymore and it’s not worth the cost.” “No, no!” cried Mary. “This is life-giving! It’s worth it! We’ll add it to the repertoire of rest activities we do when Daddy takes the toddler out once a week!” So here we are on Saturday afternoon. …
Shade for a toddler
Yesterday I took my daughter to the playground. She’s barely walking, so she holds my hand as she stumbles…
Acquisition of Donkey
Why on earth do we have so much tedious detail about this scene? I’ve always kind of skimmed through it, thinking…
Don’t Drink the Water
Before I became a mom, I didn’t realize how hard it is to keep kids from drinking pool water. Apparently this is one of those universal parenting challenges no one thinks to tell you about in advance. Drinking in general is a challenging area. Babies have a lot to learn so you can’t really blame …
Why I think God allowed childbirth to be cursed
My Bradley Method class taught me that the first stage of labor is excitement. But when I went into labor, I was immediately triggered. It was like PTSD. I thought labor was supposed to feel like muscles working, but the first thing I felt was exactly like the four miscarriages I went through. My water …
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How I’m really feeling one month postpartum
Oh my goodness, I have a kid! And where did that whole first month go? Apparently I don’t have time to write paragraphs anymore but here are my latest thoughts.I went to the dentist the other day. It was the first time I left my baby with a non-family member, so that’s all I could …
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What my dying neighbor is teaching me about lizard brains
I’ve been thinking about lizard brains a lot lately because I see this concept in action every time I hang out with my neighbor, who is slowly dying. That’s a crude way to phrase it, but if you saw her, you’d agree. She weighs less than 85 pounds- just a shadow of the round woman she once was. Hospice…
Celebrate with me
We are expecting a baby girl in early February! We’re very excited! This baby is the beginning of a new season in our family after four miscarriages, so for now we are affectionately referring to her as Baby Five.The Audible version of Lavender is available on Amazon. (Whew… got that recording done right on time.) …
Audible book is out!
Top three memorable things that happened this week: I drove to Sonic, very carefully pulled up close to the screen so I could reach it from the car… and then dropped my credit card out the window. It went under the car and I had a hard time opening my door to get it because …