Hi! I’m Elizabeth Berget!

I’m married to Eric, who mailed me love letters when I lived in South Sudan, and together we have three kids who just yesterday were wearing diapers but are somehow now primarily pointy elbows and burgeoning hormones. We have a dog named Penny who lives for stealing trash and chasing squirrels. 

Some of my other party tricks: I’m a former public school ELL teacher, and I’ve lived on three continents. For my day job, I homeschool my kids, but not in a denim jumper kind of way. I’m a textbook Enneagram One, and I think the world of proper grammar. I love food — cooking, to me is cathartic, and I think cheese is one of God’s greatest gifts to humankind. My mom used to say that I could talk to a wall, and I love getting to know people. My kids are always asking me why I talk so much to strangers. 

I love Jesus, the Refugee King one, the one who washed feet and healed the blind and calmed the storm and loved His mother. I believe that He brought and is himself the Solution to every problem and that He shows up in our everyday...in the perfection of baby cheeks, in the liturgy of dishes, in that towering oak across the street.

I have always done my best thinking while writing: I still have boxes of my angst-ridden teenage journals, with impassioned love letters to JTT tucked deeply into their bindings. Today, most of my thoughts exists in coffee-ringed pages of my calendar or in half-finished Google Doc pages that are just begging to be revisited now that everyone in our house sleeps through the night again and the bags under my eyes have slightly receded.

I’m so glad you’re here! 

My professional bio: 

Elizabeth Berget is a writer and former teacher whose work has appeared in Coffee + Crumbs, Mothering Spirit, and other online spaces where mothers gather to find meaning in the mundane. She shares her thoughts in her Substack newsletter, Back of the Flock, where she explores the image of God in the everyday work of motherhood. Berget has lived in Africa and Asia but now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband, three kids, and one mischievous dog. And yes, she’d love to hold your baby.