My name is Bethany, and I'm a military wife who, in seventeen years of marriage (and counting), has moved nine times (soon to be ten), birthed three kids (who've recently entered the pre-teen years and it's nothing short of harrowing), started but did not finish a masters of Library Science (hopefully someday!), and who fairly recently caved into her children's persistent campaign to get a dog (which has proved to be a costly surrender considering we had to pay an arm and a leg for her to join us in our most recent move from Northern Virginia to London where, upon arrival, she promptly ate something off the street that required her to then have abdominal surgery, but it's fine. We're all fine.). 

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I'm also a highly sensitive, INFJ, Enneagram 9. If you're not a personality-profile nerd like me, suffice it to say, moving and motherhood are hard, and the way I'm made often feels like an obstacle to living well the life God's given me.

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At times my desire to cultivate community and make our home, which is ever-changing, a place for people to be known and loved seems to collide with my desire for peace and stability, for that which is quiet and slow. But I'm learning that points of friction are points of growth. 

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I'd like this blog to be a record of those moments when I yield to God's wise and loving hand and watch him use the friction I encounter give my life shape--my ordinary life, our family, our home becoming a vessel of grace. 

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Thank you for joining me. So glad you're here.