“Clarify your expectations before you hold your children responsible for meeting them.” ~Julie Ann Barnhill
Today you get to find encouragement from other moms. That’s what our monthly blog hop is all about! Our topic is keeping summer boredom at bay. Now I’m the first to say that I think it’s perfectly fine for a kid to be bored and for mom to do nothing...
Several years ago we decided we needed a break for just the two of us. Once we really started to make definite plans, however, we decided to do something different. We decided to take the money we would have used on a hotel or a bed and breakfast and instead use it to...
Well Wednesday’s post started quite the discussion, didn’t it? If you just read my posts in email form, you might not have seen the 60+ comments on the Fifty Shades of No post I wrote. Most were in agreement, although some struggled with the post. Let me...
There’s a push these days for healthy eating. We have more nutritional information than any previous generation and many of us are conscious of our carbs, sodium, and calorie consumption more than ever before. Countless concerned moms are limiting processed...
“God is more powerful than your worst mistake. There is no situation that he cannot put to a good and powerful use.” ~Allie Pleiter
When I was in junior high, I won my first speech contest. I won that Optimist Oratorical Contest for several years in a row. Then I got interested in music and put “speech” on the back burner not giving it much thought until nearly 20 years later. In...
Last week, I asked how things were going with your own pursuits of spending time with God. Rachel’s answer to that question was beautiful and I just had to share it: I give my first free moments to God…whether that is at six in the morning or eleven in the...
“Children do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. They learn by watching effective role models – most specifically by observing how their parents express love for each other day in and day out. ” ~Josh McDowell
I have a friend who says this about parenting her strong-willed child, “She has a lot of great qualities. It’s just challenging to parent her.” I love how she put that for two reasons: 1) She starts with stating the positive about her child and the...
