We are THAT Family
Hi there, world changer. I’m glad you’re here. I hope my words encourage you as a wife and mom and remind you that you’re not alone in your yes to God. It’s okay to be real and a little irreverent and mostly vulnerable in this safe space. Deep down, I think there’s a little bit of that family in all of us.
I’m wild about sweet tea and I have a thing for globes and maps. I love color and words and my house has a lot of both. I’m parenting teens and a young adult with my husband slash best friend of more than 25 years.
I’m the founder of Mercy House and Fair Trade Friday and sometimes I write books. I love traveling and experiencing new cultures, trying new foods, and I’m a big fan of all things fair trade. I share my broken and beautiful story in my memoir, Rhinestone Jesus, and I share how it’s changed the way we parent in Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World and Raising World Changers. Want to read the newest book? Click here.
My life is messy and redeemed and I’m grateful for the chance to live it.
Read More about Meet Kristen
The tree is decorated. There are lights on the house, wreaths on the door, my college kids are home, and I switched my all-purpose cleaner to the peppermint scented one. It must be Christmas. This weekend, my daughters made gingerbread houses. They drank hot cocoa on a humid Texas night. I ... Read More
The golden hour is a term used in the medical field to describe the critical time period between a traumatic injury and treatment. It's also the term used by photographers to describe the magic hour right before sunrise and sunset. Although the same term is used for very different reasons--it ... Read More
While we've been roasting turkeys, welcoming family and mashing potatoes in preparation for tomorrow, many from Afghanistan have been granted refuge here in the United States--in total 95,000. Remember when all eyes were glued to the news as Kabul fell and we watched in horror as the Taliban took ... Read More
There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. -Mahatma Gandhi I have met women around the world who were too hungry to see God except in the form of bread. From desperate street mothers in one of Kenya’s deadliest slums to the young pregnant ... Read More
