Sue Bidstrup / Great Big YES!

Encouraging Women to Live Faithful, Bold, Abundant Lives!

Tag: mom

  • Letter to My Daughter on Her First Day of High School

    I woke up this morning thinking “Where did the time go?” I remember the day you were born.  Well, actually, I’ll be honest, it’s a blur.  After being induced and then going through 24 hours of labor, I was exhausted.  And then upon seeing you, I was exhilarated… and scared…and…

  • Home

    Okay so today I had no plan. This is a good thing because my dryer broke and I needed to do laundry. I went to my friend’s house to do laundry. We sat and folded and talked and laughed. It was nice. No hurry. We can’t go anywhere. See, things…

  • Shaking My Can on the Corner

    I know, it doesn’t sound pretty. What I mean is that I was “shaking a can” for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) on the corner this morning.  It was amazing. I saw a lot of volunteers standing in the rain to help! I witnessed generosity in spades. There were lots of…