Welcome to So That Motherhood

Motherhood is messy, beautiful, exhausting, and joy-filled. Often all in the same hour. For years, I’ve shared my life and thoughts on social media, but I’ve wanted a place apart from the scroll. A space where I can slow down, put words to the stirrings in my heart, and let my hopes, prayers, and encouragement live somewhere permanent. This blog is that place.

My Story

If you are new here (HI NEW FRIEND!) I’m Hannah. I’m a wife, mama to 3 littles, and someone who is learning every day how to show up and be the mama God created me to be. I grew up in the church, and God has taken me on a wild and beautiful journey with so much growth coming form the hard moments of breakups, miscarriages, losing my mom to cancer, and my youngest son being diagnosed with cancer. I’ll go deeper soon, but the short version: he was diagnosed at 5 months with an 8% chance of living. When they went into surgery, the tumor had completely disappeared. We still went through chemo and radiation because the only thing I felt like I heard God say was “trust the doctors”, and that year of treatment changed me.

The lessons I learned in the “hard” seasons have carried over into the regular, mundane, often chaotic rhythms of daily life. I have learned that we are ALL constantly having to shift our perspectives, surrender our desires, and pivot our expectations.

I am the friend willing to go first. To be vulnerable in the messy middle before I have it all figured out. Because that somehow seems to give others the permission and courage to do the same. Satan works in the dark, secret, isolating places. And I’m here to say NO MORE. We are doing life a different way SO THAT we can enjoy these precious lives we have been given, fall more in love with Jesus, and raise our kiddos reflecting that love.

My Bat Signal

Every mom has those hidden moments of whispering, “I can’t do this.” The exhaustion, the overstimulation, the guilt that we’re not enough for our kids. Ooph, it’s heavy. I’m here for the mama shining her help light into the sky, hoping someone will see it and respond. I’m here for the mama who feels stuck in survival mode. She loves Jesus but feels like her faith is slipping through her fingers in the everyday chaos. She’s juggling little ones, a house that feels like it’s never clean, a budget that feels stretched too thin, and a heart that longs for peace.

I see her because I have been her. And I believe God is calling me to be a voice of encouragement in the trenches.

My Mission

I help Jesus-loving mamas of littles who feel overwhelmed and stuck in survival mode by rooting them in radical, grace-filled faith. I equip them with simple, life-giving tools from daily rhythms to natural wellness so they can thrive with peace and joy.

That’s a big sentence, but here’s what it means:

• I want to remind moms that faith isn’t another item on their to-do list. It’s the foundation that can carry them when everything feels like too much.
• I want to offer practical, doable tips that you can implement right away
• I want to hold space for the honest parts of motherhood—the tears, the late-night prayers, the laughter that breaks through the exhaustion.

Why a Blog?

Social media is fast and fleeting. A post goes up, gets a few likes, and then disappears into the feed. Plus I’m at the mercy of the algorithm. LAME. But the thoughts God gives me, the prayers I pray for other mamas, the little pieces of wisdom I’m gathering as I stumble forward I want to be there for the mamas who need it. I want them to live here, in a place you can come back to when you need encouragement, truth, or just the reminder that you’re not the only one figuring this out.

Also I’ll be perfectly honest that I have no idea what I’m doing starting a blog, but I’m a big fan of diving in and figuring it out as I go. I gave up my perfectionist ways long ago.

An Invitation

Pull up a chair here anytime. Read, breathe deep, and find encouragement. And reach out. With questions. With sorrows. With your own story. I’m here for it all.

We need God. We need each other. And we need to remind ourselves daily that our motherhood is also our children’s childhood. It matters.

I’m so glad you’re here.