Rachel Summey
Rachel has been a mother for nearly a decade!. When she has all 3 of her kids at the grocery store she is inevitably told that she has her hands full (she does). Her heart is full too, from: exploring foreign cities with Tim (married in '05), adventurous eating with Lowell (10yo), living room dance parties with Ansel (8yo) and taking orders from her adorable drill sergeant, Rosen (6yo).
When loss disrupted her life in her early 20's, Rachel gained a new perspective. Her experience means she has more candor than tact, she tells her kids the truth about life and death, she has a passion for people with broken hearts. Her life experiences have also motivated her to help launch a new ministry at her church for grieving kids to find support after death of a loved one.
How to Get Up the Guts to Travel Internationally with Kids
Part Two of this article is forthcoming, once we get home from our first as-a-family international trip, and I'll let you know then which of my two working titles I went with:
"How to Successfully...
Relationships Drive Learning at Fusion Academy
This post has been sponsored by Fusion Academy. All opinions are 100% our own!
Parents are often able to see that their child has unmet potential, and a traditional schooling model which focuses on production...
My Version of a New Year’s Detox Plan
I have spent a month indulging: spending, eating, drinking, skipping the gym, and saying yes to dessert. I know I can't be the only one feeling like I need a good detox, right?
I have...
6+ Reasons City Futsal is better than YMCA soccer
My husband is a former soccer player and a current soccer fan, and he coached our son's soccer team through the local YMCA last Fall. We enjoyed it, but in the Spring we decided to...
Piercing My Daughter’s Ears: We Ditched the Mall and Went to La Lobe
My daughter started begging to get her ears pierced when she was four. I put her off for a couple years, but we finally let her on her sixth birthday. I really wanted to celebrate...
Preschool Dropout: Why I Pulled my Daughter from a School We Love
Last year, the baby of our family started her second year of preschool. The first year I was working part-time, so I had to use the hours of child-free time to invest into my...
How a Weekly Date Night Changed our Relationship
I have previously written a post on babysitters {here} and how getting what I wanted from a babysitter required that I stop trying to convince her that I am cool. I was having a major...
Fusion Academy: A Revolutionary Way to School
This post has been sponsored by Fusion Academy to bring you an alternative solution to standard high school. All opinions are 100% our own.
Until last month, I didn't realize Dallas had options for students...
Last Mother in the Woods (Or: Getting Your Kids Outside When You Kinda Hate...
I'm indoorsy. I like my animals domesticated, my lawns manicured, my flowers planted intentionally (or more honestly, arranged in vases) and my outdoors time to be spent sitting outside for hours on a patio....
Joy and Loss: How We Became Foster Parents
First, we got a license to be a foster care home, and then we "opened" to receive calls for potential placement. We opened at midnight on a Monday.
I turned on my phone ringer Sunday night, just in...
The Day I Told My Kid I Lied
Several years ago, some friends came over to my house for a girls night. At the end of the night I was loaning one gal some clothes for a wedding, and my friends saw...
Self Care in a Sacrifice Season
When my son was born, my mom came in town to care for our new family as we adjusted. I remember dropping her off at Love Field a week later and crying, begging her...