As we were driving to church recently, we heard Renee Swope with the Proverbs 31 Radio Program refer to grace-giving in marriage as being similar to how cartilage protects the joints in our body. The cartilage in between joints keeps the bones from rubbing...
We’re posting this Marriage Monday from the Fairfield Inn in Boston. It’s the last night of a five day vacation for two that we took exploring the coast from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine. Once in Maine, Mark officiated a wedding for some...
Years ago Mark and I were introduced to the concept of the Three Question Technique. This communication concept helped us deepen our conversations and get out of the rut of short answers that kept conversation at surface levels. Mark says… When Jill and I were...
Note: For those who receive my blog by email, you will get Marriage Monday on Tuesday morning. Blogger was down all day Sunday and Monday and I was unable to post until Monday afternoon. So better late than never…here’s this week’s...
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...
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...
Mark teases that Is There Really Sex After Kids? is the book he’s most astonished that I wrote. He has reason to feel that way because our physical relationship was at the core of much of our marriage conflict and frustration for the first 10 years of our...
Mark and I have several events on the calendar over the next few months. We might even be coming to your area! If you live in Central Florida, the St. Louis area, or in Central Illinois, we’d love to meet you! If you don’t live near these...
At the beginning of the year I shared with you the ministry transition that Mark and I felt God leading us to make. Mark resigned from his pastoral ministry and we are now speaking, writing, and encouraging families through Hearts at Home full-time….with a...
Several years ago Mark and I were introduced to a great marriage book by Emerson Eggerichs called Love and Respect. This book transformed our thinking in many ways. The book Love and Respect is based upon the Bible verse from Ephesians 5:33 which says,...
About a month before little Rilyn was born, I spent the weekend with Anne with the goal of helping her finish up the nursery. Once we had everything in it’s place, she looked at the white walls and said, “Mom, we can’t spend a dime making this room look warm and...
When Mark and I found ourselves sitting in a counselor’s office around year 7, we found that we’d made a very big mistake. We’d put our kids before our marriage. We also learned this was no more healthy for our marriage than it was for...
Happy Monday morning! Today should be Marriage Monday, but I’m a little busy today… becoming a Grandma! Anne had a sonogram on Saturday and it showed that her amniotic fluid is too low. They have decided to induce her this morning. ...
Mark and I are excited to be part of the Focus on the Family “Celebrate Family” Tour. We’ll be at the Orlando, Florida, event on Wednesday, May 19. If you live close enough to come to the Orlando event, we’d love to meet you! ...
When Mark and I speak together on marriage, we introduce ourselves as being married “27 years…17 of them happily.” It’s a description we wish weren’t true, but unfortunately it is. Our marriage has had plenty of ups and downs....
