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...
