About

If you are looking for encouragement, support, understanding, and hope in marriage and family issues, you are in the right place. I invite you to read my words and hear my heart through them. I do not have all the answers, but I do enjoy searching for them. I continually learn valuable lessons through my own marriage and family experiences, and I desire to share these lessons and experiences with you. I believe that wisdom comes from knowing where to find good counsel, and when I find it, I don’t like to keep it to myself. Let’s learn and grow in wisdom together. More than anything, I hope that you will find both empathy and inspiration here. 

My husband Kevin and I have been married for more than 25 years. Kevin Partridge is one of the wisest people I know, and we work together as a team through marriage, parenting, adoption, and following Jesus. Much of what I write comes from conversations that he and I have, so his words and mine are greatly intertwined. I’m just the one who writes them down.

Kevin and I have five children, two of whom we adopted from Colombia in 2016. When Kevin and I got married, my understanding of my relationship with God increased greatly. When we started having children, my understanding of my relationship with God grew exponentially! And when we adopted older children from another country, my understanding of my relationship with God was blown away…It is too much to comprehend or contain. The lessons keep coming and coming, as God draws me deeper still into relationship with him.

I have always learned through personal writing, but I also believe that we learn and grow through community. I hope that you will become part of this online community so that we can grow, encourage, and support one another in these vitally important areas of marriage and family.

~ Carrie

My “Growth Spurts” column and additional articles were featured in Parents & Kids Magazine for more than ten years, and now they are compiled into my book, Growth Spurts: Growing Through Motherhood. I am a monthly contributor to Family Christian and have also contributed to New Mercies for Moms, The Uncommon Normal, the Ministry to Parents blog, and other online sources. My writing has been published in ParentLife and BabyLife magazines, as well. I am a contributing author to The Favor of Forgiveness: Find Yourself Again devotional book.