Motherhood | Kelsey Gillespy

Why Jesus Wants To Be With Us All The Time

Posted on February 14, 2021 2 Comments

I stared in the mirror at the frothy white foam clinging to my lips. What’s so special about this? I thought to myself, spitting out the minty toothpaste and washing it down the sink. I peered around me. In this very rare occasion, I was alone. Standing in the quiet. Brushing my teeth. There’s nothing […]

Why Jesus Should NOT Take The Wheel

Posted on November 8, 2020 2 Comments

When I was a little kid, my grandpa frequently let me drive his car. Not on the street or anything crazy. He’d simply pull into an abandoned parking lot, plop me on his lap, and let me manifest my own destiny. It was beautiful. And after his recent passing, I’ve been thinking about him—this man […]

What To Do When You’re Nervous

Posted on October 18, 2020 1 Comment

For years, my son has begged to do gymnastics. Mainly, I think, because his big sisters do gymnastics and he wants to be just like them. Every week since he was a baby, he and I have taken his big sisters to their class. Then, when he started talking, every week he would say, “John […]

I Really Love You

Posted on August 30, 2020 6 Comments

Time for bed. I didn’t know this before I became a parent, but those three words are full of magic. Or maybe caffeine. I’m not totally sure. Whatever the case, every night when I say those words, they seem to bewitch my children. No sooner than I finish the phrase, one child is swinging upside […]

Golf Is Hard

Posted on August 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

Golf is hard. Especially when it’s in Texas. In summer. In the middle of the day. With four small children. And did you know that you’re supposed to be quiet at a golf course? Even when you have FOUR SMALL CHILDREN there? Like I said, golf is hard. And that’s before you actually start trying […]

The One Thing We Forget to Give God

Posted on August 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

“Here, mama.” My two-year-old extended her pudgy, closed fist. Inside, no doubt, rested a highly-prized treasure. My kids do this often, this bringing me gifts thing. Then they’ll drop their special gift into my hand and I’ll ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over their precious deposit. At times, they give me acorns. Other times, rocks. Or weeds. […]

Why We Should Stop Working So Hard To Take Care of Ourselves

Posted on July 26, 2020 8 Comments

Cheese. That’s how our house imploded. I, thinking my three children could share, poured some shredded cheese into one bowl, then set it on the table in front of them. For a short while, they happily took turns driving their fist into the pile, and then shoving a handful of the stuff into their mouths. […]

Who Are You, Really?

Posted on July 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

My son has disappeared. Not physically, thank heavens. But my smiley, go-with-the-flow, happy-to-help toddler has been replaced by some body snatcher who constantly sulks, shoulders drooped, head down, shouting things like, “I don’t want to!” or some whiny form of “Stoooop!” It’s exhausting. Mass has become difficult. Nap time is impossible. Getting him to eat […]

Why Does God Allow Bad Things To Happen?

Posted on June 21, 2020 13 Comments

If you’re anything like us, dinner time looks a lot like the end of the world. Steam rises in a big, hazy cloud. Metal clangs and crashes. Hungry babies wail at my feet or in my arms, begging to be fed. Then there’s the lone grown up, running frantically, bouncing from place to place, trying […]

What To Do When Tornadoes Strike

Posted on January 12, 2020 2 Comments

Everything’s bigger in Texas. Including severe weather. Here, there is no defined ‘tornado season’. Not really, anyway. At any given time, warm weather can tango with an incoming cold front and transform into funnel-shaped danger. Typically, Texas reports about 140-150 tornadoes each year, a quota it reached by May in 2019. In October of that […]