1 Beautiful Dream

Work and family, personhood and motherhood, the creative life and family life-women are told constantly that they can’t have it all. Jennifer Fulwiler was told this, too, and for years she believed it.

Jennifer is the last person you might expect to be a stay-at-home mom of six young children. She’s an introverted only child who married another only child. She was once a workaholic atheist who never intended to have a family. She describes her love language as “being left alone in silent rooms.” To top it all off, Jennifer has a blood-clotting disorder exacerbated by pregnancy that has threatened her life on more than one occasion.

One Beautiful Dream tells the story of one woman’s wild ride into learning that the life you need is not always the life you would have originally chosen for yourself. Hilarious, highly relatable, and brutally honest, Jennifer’s story will spark clarity and comfort to your own tug-of-war between all that is good and beautiful about family life and the incredible sacrifice it entails. Parenthood, personal ambitions, family planning, and faith-it’s complicated. Let this book be your invitation to the unexpected, yet beautiful dream of saying yes to them all, with God’s help.