For souls who long to be reminded: You are enough. You are not alone. You are deeply cherished.
“Together, we embrace the miracles, the heartache, and the healing.
Inhaling life fully, loving intensely, valuing the wealth of family with thanksgiving to the One who created us”
Big Family Life
If you’ve found your way here, chances are you’re carrying something heavy. Maybe it’s the exhaustion of raising kids alongside a body or mind that is breaking. Maybe it’s the ache of a marriage that’s been shattered and frozen in the past. You long to warm your love and learn what it means to rebuild trust. Maybe it’s the silent weight of grief after loss, or the confusion of living with an illness that has no name. Perhaps it’s the search for encouragement and new ideas to build up your child’s education and growth.
I see you, because I live here too.
I’m a wife, a homeschooling mama of eight, a woman who has faced extreme illness and injuries that left me in pieces, with losses that ripped my heart wide open. I’ve known what it is to be flat on the floor in pain, and I’ve also known the quiet joy of watching my children learn, laugh, and thrive in the middle of my despair. I’ve felt my soul crack with loneliness, and I’ve also felt God whisper peace and life over me in the stillness.
This space isn’t about pretending motherhood or marriage or health, or even faith are easy. They aren’t.
But they are worth living deeply.
Here at Big Family Life, you’ll find:
- Honest conversations about motherhood, marriage, and loss. Not polished, not Pinterest-perfect, but the real kind. The messy kitchens, the sleepless nights, the endless running, the apologies, forgiveness, and rebuilding.
- Reflections on living with chronic pain and illnesses, and how they shape not just the body, but the mind, the emotions, and the spirit.
- Faith woven through suffering, with raw questions, prayers, and the slow, beautiful rebuilding of trust in God when life doesn’t look like we thought it would.
- Homeschool life with a big family, hands-on learning, travel, experiments, laughter, and the honest struggles of teaching while managing a household that never slows down.
- Gardening, natural wellness, and holistic living. Our family’s journey to nurture not just our bodies, but our souls and our connection to the earth God gave us.
- A place for women to breathe, to be reminded that they are not alone, not too broken, not too much, and not forgotten.
This is not a space of judgment, but of love. Of compassion. Of standing in the pit together and helping one another climb out over and over again, if that’s what it takes.
I believe in laughter and tears, in hard work and grace, in the truth that healing is not linear, and that even in the middle of our pain, we can still live abundantly.
Big Family Life is about being real. It’s about sharing stories that make us nod in recognition, cry in relief, and laugh when we didn’t think we had it in us. It’s about motherhood that doesn’t gloss over the cracks, faith that doesn’t silence doubts, and love that refuses to give up.
So grab a seat at my kitchen table, there’s always room for one more. Let’s talk about the hard things, celebrate the small victories, and keep walking this road together.