Author: Little Maui Family

I went years wearing mostly striped shirts + dresses, now I incorporate solids + checkered patterns as a rule. I'm a mom of three kids we had in 3.5 years + I often stutter + struggle to figure out what's going on around me. My house is usually a mess but it's so completely full of love + wonder, paints + drawings, playdough-in-the-carpets, half-finished sewing + craft projects, and food scattered about. I love baking + cooking with my kids. My husband is the best person I know besides Jesus. We've grown so much in the past 13 years of marriage. If you've read this far, then let's see, I am a former journalist + marketing specialist + wedding and event planner who now spends her days changing diapers, scrubbing the toilet, reading huge piles of literature to my babies, chasing after my eldest + middle + also youngest - oh yes, I dream of becoming a book writer + legit love my life (except for the rare or not so rare occasion when I'm crying hysterically on the bathroom floor bc it's so hard having three kids so close in age..and I feel like I'm failing at #momlife.). God is Faithful, and He's shown me His great love through the hard + holy-making work of getting to the end of myself and realizing that at the end, HE is there. HE always was. xx

Mother’s Day 2023

Little Maui Family

We've had a great Mother's Day weekend over here. Yesterday, the kids helped me deliver flower bouquets and chocolate chip cookies along with sleeves of ripe apple-bananas (that Ken had recently harvested from our yard!) to our neighbors in celebration of the sweet mothers on our street. Fun fact: I love arranging flowers. I used… Continue reading Mother’s Day 2023

alaska!

Little Maui Family

It's been one year. One year since we visited Alaska as a family and got to introduce our younger two kids to their Daddy's homeland. This is the place where our eldest, Ruby, was born and we hadn't been back in maybe six years. (Our previous trip was an Alaskan cruise with family right after… Continue reading alaska!

Pain, old friend

Little Maui Family

And just like that, more than a month has gone by since my previous post. Here we are in late March, me sitting at my corner spot in the dining nook listening to the pitter-pat of rain as it slips down our aluminum awning. I woke up at 4 a.m. in pain, the kind of… Continue reading Pain, old friend

Healing, like Grief, is not Linear

Little Maui Family

I sat with my anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief." Boiling hot water poured over lemon juice with a teaspoon of local Maui honey, a cup of cozy to welcome in this chilly spring morning. My top covered in a sweater, my legs wrapped in a fleece blanket, just… Continue reading Healing, like Grief, is not Linear