Dear Anne,You have now entered into a new season of life. Motherhood will be the most important job you’ll ever have. There are so many things that I long to share with you: lessons your dad and I learned the hard way, strategies we learned from everyday...
As you may know, I’m a Compassion Child Sponsor. Our family sponsors Daniel for $38/month. Daniel is 12 and lives in Honduras. We pray for him and write to him. He also writes to us.Since my opportunity to go on a Compassion trip to El Salvador two years...
“Remember, your children learn more from what they see and hear you do than from the best lecture you can...
The days of summer are upon us. For those of us with school-age children it means change. I always look forward to that time with both excitement and uncertainty. Just how will we fill our hours and our days? Several years ago I...
I love when the warm weather sets in because I add another room to my house: my front porch! Mark and I love to sit out on the porch and read, talk, or visit with friends. Today I’m sharing an excerpt from My Hearts at Home about the value of...
Today’s Marriage Monday is a continuation of the challenge I made and the accompanying giveaway I announced last Wednesday. If you missed that post, you can read it here.It’s important for husbands and wives to step away from the everyday and spend...
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so...
Mark and I just returned from 48 hours in Orlando, Florida as part of the Celebrate Family tour with Focus on the Family. It was so exciting to meet some of our Florida blog and Facebook friends!This was a little getaway for just the two of us. Sure there...
One of my favorite mommy bloggers is Crystal Paine who blogs at www.moneysavingmom.com. When reading through the articles on her website I ran across one where she shared about her decision to stop buying paper towels. While not buying paper towels...
Mark teases that Is There Really Sex After Kids? is the book he’s most astonished that I wrote. He has reason to feel that way because our physical relationship was at the core of much of our marriage conflict and frustration for the first 10 years of our...
“Like a child, stay teachable- which means knowing you have plenty to...
Mark and I have several events on the calendar over the next few months. We might even be coming to your area! If you live in Central Florida, the St. Louis area, or in Central Illinois, we’d love to meet you! If you don’t live near these...
At the beginning of the year I shared with you the ministry transition that Mark and I felt God leading us to make. Mark resigned from his pastoral ministry and we are now speaking, writing, and encouraging families through Hearts at Home full-time….with a...
After adopting Kolya at the age of 9, we soon realized this young man thrived with a hammer in his hand. He loved anything to do with creating, fixing, or building.We also discovered several years ago this same boy loves to fish. Everytime we’d go to...
