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10Dec201308Jun2017

When You Want to Press Rewind

Erica Hale Faith, Family faith, grace, grief, kids, teens 6 Comments

It’s a strange feeling, standing here in this mostly empty house. It has been nearly 3 years, but it still feels like home. It’s hard, renting out the place that once was your home. Hard to let it go and hope that another loves it half as much as you. What’s harder, though, is the […]

30Oct201329Jul2014

Dear Foster Baby

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering foster care, grief 4 Comments

Dear Foster Baby, Your third birthday is on Saturday. Three years old! It’s hard to imagine, and easy to picture at the same time. You left my arms just six weeks after turning a year old, how can the time have passed so quickly? I want you to know, I think of you and of […]

12Sep201308Jun2017

Roots (a post from the archive)

Erica Hale Family favorites, kids, montana 0 Comment

Dusting off the blog and doing a little housekeeping. In the meantime, the State Fair was last week. Here’s a post from the archives about the day I took the kids to their first Rodeo… Little me, with my red cowboy hat (and unfortunate haircut) on my birthday. It has been so many […]

02Oct201226May2016

Stuck on the Elevator

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering faith, foster care, grief 2 Comments

It was Monday, the second Monday I meant to write my gratitude journal for the rest of my crazy last year. The second Monday I had intended to finish up the story of it all because it needs to be finished, it needs to be told, and it needs to be seen in the light […]

25Sep201218Mar2015

On Laundry

Erica Hale Family humor 5 Comments

Laundry…oh, laundry. Laundry and I have had a love-hate relationship since I was sixteen: Laundry loves to accumulate at a rapid rate in my closet, and I hate to do it. I’ve long told my kids that if ever we hit the jackpot and become suddenly wealthy, the one thing that I will change […]

21Sep201221Sep2016

A Gift

Erica Hale Dyslexia, Faith, Family faith, grace, hippotherapy, horses, mercy, salvation, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Sometimes God gives you a gift, a special gift just for you to let you know that He knows the desires of your heart and He delights in your joy. The sort of gift that is wrapped up in beautiful paper and tied with curls of brightly colored ribbon, the kind with your name on […]

12Sep201208Jun2017

Tutorial: Family Chalkboard

Erica Hale Family tutorials 1 Comment

With all the things going on in our lives, this family has really been in need of an organizational overhaul. One of the things we are trying is a big “family chalkboard,” a place where we can write things down, keep track of school work, and generally just keep lists of things that need to […]

11Sep201218Mar2015

Roots

Erica Hale Family montana 1 Comment

It has been so many years, and maybe I’ll never know why suddenly the desire welled up in me the way it did. I planned the evening out, all excited to show these three kids a little part of my history, my roots that are twined a few hundred miles to the North of […]

10Sep201227May2016

Gratitude Journal…Rounding the Bend

Erica Hale Faith, Family, Fostering faith, gratitude journal 3 Comments

It’s been too long since I counted the daily joys, and there were so many days of treading water and fighting the current just to keep my head above water that things seemed to fade and blend into one big, long blur. So I’m doing my best to paddle back to shore, or at least […]

05Sep201218Mar2015

Bandages

Erica Hale Faith, Family faith, kids, Parenting 1 Comment

The bowl hit the counter and shattered at the same moment he tried to catch it, leaving a cut that quickly bled through two bandages. As I swept up the pieces one pricked my finger and there we were, bleeding in the kitchen early on a Wednesday morning. I wrapped his wound in cotton, pulling […]