My church needs YOUR help!
Edited to add: We matched our grant!!! Our sensory room is covered thanks to your willingness to partner with us. I cannot thank you all enough, I am humbled, amazed, and incredibly thankful! This is a personal post, from me, asking for your help. Humbling. But, there...
We need your story!
Everyone has a story. What’s yours? It happens, you’re having a conversation with someone and suddenly they say something about you, your life, your kids, your spouse, maybe even your dog, and that comment is so ignorant or insensitive that you wonder if...
Embrace your limits, a vlog
One question I get asked often is, “How do you balance life as a wife, mom, special needs mom, having a job, and being a pastor’s wife?” It’s not easy, but one thing that really helps me is to embrace my limits. This is my second video blog,...
My Huffington Post debut
As a writer, getting published by the Huffington Post is a big deal. When I got an email from the editor saying they wanted to publish one of my essays, I cheered, I jumped, I clapped. The best part is that my daughter with Down syndrome – the one the article is...
Winner of Sun Shine Down
The winner of Sun Shine Down by Gillian Marchenko is Tricia! If you didn’t win, don’t miss out, get Sun Shine Down: A Memoir on Kindle Or Sun Shine Down: A Memoir paperback (Affiliate links)
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.