The Bad Mom Persona
Alexandra Kuykendall
You’ve probably already made 84 decisions today, and it may only be 9 a.m. Hello, dearest, welcome to motherhood. Making decisions for ourselves can
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Let Love Be The Loudest Voice
Alexandra Kuykendall
I turned my shopping cart down the next aisle and felt a familiar tension creep into my neck. The trees, lights, wreaths, ornaments, candy
Stewarding The Story
Alexandra Kuykendall
Kids and The Christmas Story Christmas and kids were made for each other. The main attraction in the story is a baby surrounded by
How Everything and Nothing Changed
Alexandra Kuykendall
I like to say when I became a mom everything changed and nothing changed. Everything changed because a tiny bit of heaven landed in
10 Small Ways to Find Adventure in the Midst of Motherhood
Alexandra Kuykendall
There are many mornings I wake up and the day ahead of me doesn’t look that different than the day before. And tomorrow doesn’t
How I Love My Actual Life
Alexandra Kuykendall
I woke up this morning to dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, bills on the counter waiting to be paid and puppy poop on
Falling Toward Joy
Alexandra Kuykendall
How 10 Minutes a Day Can Change Your Christmas Hope, Love, Joy and Peace are the themes of the season. At church services around
Facing Political Talk at the Holiday Table
Alexandra Kuykendall
Here it is, the first Christmas season post the craziest presidential election in recent history, and you have to go over the river and
But I’m Not That Mom
Alexandra Kuykendall
But I’m not THAT mom! kept running through my head. I don’t do smocked dresses or big hair bows. I don’t sew. I barely
How Parenting Changed my Marriage
Alexandra Kuykendall
Derek held our baby first. I couldn’t. I was shaking from the labor and the, oh so many drugs that had been pumped into