I have some bad habits and laying my clothes on the bench at the foot of our bed is one of those. Mark is very kind and rarely addresses my pile of clothes, but even if they don’t bother him, they do bother me! Yet, I continue my bad habit nonetheless! So...
I know, I know…it’s not even Thanksgiving and I’m already talking about Christmas! I’m not usually one to jump the gun on Christmas, but I want to tell you about a book I’m reading by Liz Curtis Higgs! Liz was a speaker at a Hearts at...
“God doesn’t give you the people you want, He gives you the people you NEED – To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be.” ...
Well in light of my post yesterday, I think that embracing “what is” instead of looking for “what isn’t” will most definitely define the holidays for me. Because I’ll likely be recovering from surgery the week before Christmas,...
Last week I heard those four words and my heart stopped. After an abnormal routine mammogram, followed by an abnormal sonogram, my doctor ordered a biopsy. I had the biopsy the Monday after the North Central Hearts at Home conference and less than 48 hours later, I...
Two years ago my family made two trips to help with tornado recovery in Joplin, Missouri. I saw devastation like never before. We spent our days collecting household items and important papers that had been strewn all over the city, hoping to somehow connect the item...
“God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.” ~Francis Chan
I’m tired. It’s a good tired. After a conference weekend like last weekend where I had the opportunity to spend the weekend with 2300 incredible moms, I’m a tad bit worn out. It’s a good worn out and I’m not complaining one bit. Just...
“Prayerless lives are powerless lives, while prayerful lives are powerful lives!” ~Beth Moore
Yesterday we were discussing home organization in our Professionalizing Motherhood book study on Facebook. It soon became obvious that home organization is a challenge for many of us moms. As a recovering messy myself, I have found one strategy that makes a HUGE...
