Get in on the fun!

There are two Hearts at Home conferences this fall and it’s not too late to join the fun! One is this weekend in Colorado Springs, Colorado where I’ll be speaking along with Sally Baucke, Julie Barnhill, and more than a dozen other great speakers.  Walk-in...

Motivation Monday

Change is good…and today I’m starting a new type of post. On Motivation Monday, I hope to pose a challenge that motivates both you and I to do the right thing that day (and hopefully days to come!) Today’s Motivation Monday challenge is this: Move...

Friday’s Quote of the Week

“The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” ~Zephaniah 3:17 NIV

How to have a parenting “do-over.”

I remember when Mark and I took a parenting class and learned about expecting first time obedience from our kids. Our habit, up to that point, had been to count to three, or to threaten, or to get angry. Now we had a different vision for our family and for discipline...

All fixed…I hope!

Last week we ran into all kinds of technical challenges with my blog.  Then today I discovered that the subscription service that delivers the posts by email wasn’t working! Really? Could one more thing go wrong? So now the subscription is fixed, but...

Experiencing God’s Presence Today

Today’s post is a guest post from Michele Cushatt.  Michele is a popular workshop speaker at our 2011 Hearts at Home conferences.  A mom of three boys, she lives with her family in Colorado.  You can find Michele online at www.michelecushatt.com.   I’ve...

Marriage Monday: The Danger of Mediocrity

A recent study by marriage researcher Paul Amato, determined that up to 60 percent of divorces in the United States stem from “low-conflict” marriage.  There’s no abuse, no addiction, no infidelity, and no major debt.  “Instead,”...

Technical Difficulties

You know, technology is incredible…when it works! Today, there’s been a major glitch in my blog and we are working diligently behind-the-scenes to get it fixed.  Initially the “pages” and the “links” over to the right were not...

Another visit to Joplin

I need to start off today by apologizing for the “technical part” of yesterday’s post.  I don’t know why, but much of the punctuation was gone when it went live and the link didn’t work!  So weird! I was visiting Matt, Anne, and Rilyn...