With four young kids within five years of each other, Heather's hands and heart are absolutely full. She's passionate about good food, literature, social justice, handmade items, and making her house a welcoming and comforting space for all. She also spends a lot of time nursing her long-term relationship with coffee. Heather and her husband Michael blog about homeschooling, living life with a hearty mix of both abandon and intentionality, their future working with refugees in France, and other sundry topics at Those Kinds of People.
A 15-year-old girl sat in the driver’s seat of a parked car in a high school parking lot, tears running down her face. Her voice was angry, her face flushed. ...
I love living in a place that has four distinct seasons. In the fall, we get the crackling leaves; in the winter, the fluffy snowflakes. But everybody knows that spring...
Today, I gave my husband fair warning: “I’m feeling a little emotional lability, so consider yourself warned.” We do that. I’m not by nature a hugely demonstrative person, so when...
A few weeks ago, our family was matched with a 2-year-old boy, across the ocean. My heart longs to say these words to our sweet son. Dear sweet boy, You...
There are a few stereotypes about homeschooling moms. The first is that they’re completely socially backward and fearful of any outside influences that the world may have on their kids....
Miscarriages aren’t something that get talked about very frequently, are they? At the time I wrote this, we just passed our 2-year-anniversary of our miscarriage. I’ve done a lot of...
We’d had a chatty conversation, and then it happened. Her words dripped into the comfortable silence, as we both fingered our coffee mugs. “So….after this kid, are you guys going...