Always a mom…

You know, even when your kids are grown you’re heart is still attached to them and you’re still so proud of their accomplishments. Do you remember when I posted last week that my son’s band, “Courtland,” made it in the final 12 of the...

Prom

As if a slumber party wasn’t enough excitement for the weekend, we also had Prom this weekend. Erica has graduated from high school, but her boyfriend, Kendall, is a senior. If you’ve been hanging around my blog for a little while you might remember that...

What I’ve Been Reading Part 2

I shared on Thursday that I’ve been reading some rather controversial books. I shared about The Shack on Thursday. Today I want to share with you about the Twilight series.I tend to be drawn to historical fiction in general. Reading a book about vampires is not...

Erica update

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for my daughter, Erica. She was finally able to have an MRI on Tuesday, but unfortunately, the MRI didn’t show anything. The neurologist is baffled and is sending us to an epileptologist. He feels it is...

Spring Break

It’s spring break for us. My boys have been content to just be home, play basketball, do some building projects, bake cookies…pretty easy stuff. I even offered for them to have friends over today (we live out in the country so you can’t just go...

Could I ask you to pray?

Hello blog friends,This week has been a challenging week for my 18-year-old daughter, Erica. Late Saturday night her body began twitching uncontrollably. Initially the doctors thought that she was having a reaction to a new medication she had started. She stopped...

Real Truth

Welcome to those of you visiting for the first time from Lysa Terkeurst’s blog. Lysa and I are similar in our style of just being honest about life. I hope you’ll subscribe to my blog today so I can get to know you better!The discussion at Lysa’s blog today is about...

Back to real life

The Hearts at Home weekend pulls us out of the daily grind of life for a couple of days. It’s exhausting but refreshing at the same time. But life doesn’t stop and once we’re back home we moms hit the ground running. Like yesterday.We returned home...

Wednesday’s Words of Encouragement

Teaching your children about AuthorityBy Jill Savage”Erica, Mrs. Jones is in charge during Sunday School. I expect you to respect and obey her.””Anne, Sarah is the boss while we are gone. I expect you to listen to her as your...

Real Moms, Real Lives, Real Stories

This real mom, real story comes from my friend MarLo who shared this on her blog. I thought her perspective was incredibly valuable for any parent and I asked her if I could share it with you. May you be encouraged by her words today:My six-year-old daughter had her...

Making Memories Day 2

Wow, already we’ve had six great ideas submitted for creative ways to keep the memories for your kids! I just love it when we can share with one another like this. If you haven’t already read the six ideas submitted, you’ll find them here. Remember...

Making Memories

I’ve stated before that I tend to have an “all or nothing” mindset. This sometimes keeps me from doing the things I want to do because if I can’t do them right then I don’t do them at all.Almost twenty years ago I decided to keep a...

Read thru the Bible with your kids

I love the start of a new year. It’s a great time to evaluate and start fresh in whatever area of our life we want to do in a different way. Last week when Mark and I did our “advance decision making” conversation, we discussed wanting to do...

Real Gift Giving

Do you have your baking done? Is you shopping finished? Do you have the house cleaned? Are you packed for traveling? There are so many things to get done to “do” Christmas. Isn’t it time to let go of some of the expectations for a...

Real Life

The weekend was a busy one for company in our home with 15 extended family visiting and 10 of them spending the night at our house plus about 50 people who joined us for Erica’s graduation open house on Saturday. That was the best part of the weekend.But in the...