Last Tuesday I finished my radiation treatment. I. Am. Now. Cancer. Free! Surgery. Chemotherapy. Radiation. 8 months of treatment is now behind me. My oncologist, who I will now see every 3 months for the next two years, said I now have three responsibilities to...
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” ...
Father’s Day is just days away and sometimes the best gifts you can give Dad don’t cost a dime. Karen Ehman and Glynnis Whitwer are two celebration queens in my life. They inspire me to be creative (or better yet, they equip me to be creative!) and have...
“God loves us as we are and not as we should be, because no one is as they should be.” ...
Today’s post is a guest post from my friend, Donna Jones. Donna is a favorite Hearts at Home conference speaker and author of three books including Taming Your Family Zoo, Raising Kids with Good Manners and her latest, SEEK: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God....
The days of summer are upon us. For those with school-age children it means change. Within a matter of days many moms will have their children home for the summer. I always looked forward to that time with both excitement and uncertainty. As an at-home mom, I would...
“My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.” ~Charles Spurgeon
My baby graduated from high school on Saturday. How is that even possible? Wasn’t it just yesterday that I brought all 9lbs 10oz of him home from the hospital? He’s headed to Moody Bible Institute in the fall to pursue a degree in Communications. He had...
Today’s guest post is from Dr. Debbie Cherry. Dr. Cherry is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker who is a workshop speaker at our 2014 Hearts at Home conferences. She has authored and co-authored several books including The Strong-willed Wife...
Over the past six months of my cancer journey, I’ve learned that a sense of humor is very important during the hard times. Joy is an inside job and is not dependent upon our circumstances. Looking back over this season, a few “funnies” come to mind...
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” ~Mary Anne...
What about you? Do you need to up your forgiveness quota?
Last fall, I had the rare opportunity to see a movie before it was released. When Hearts at Home was contacted by the Moms’ Night Out movie team to discuss reaching moms together, I told my team that I wouldn’t endorse something that I hadn’t seen....
One of the hardest parts of dealing with cancer treatment is the fear of the unknown. I’m happy to leverage my experience to take away that fear as much as possible. Here are 5 things I didn’t about radiation treatments until I started them, some photos,...
