Need more time?

Since Tessa was born, I’ve been surprised at how fast the days fly by. It seems before I fully wake up for the morning, 3 or 4 days have passed and I don’t know what day or even what month it is. I keep forgetting to do important things that actually have a timeframe. When [...]

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Raising a Leader

Every mother in the world would like for her children to make a difference. There’s something amazing about contributing to the next generation, putting your mark on a world that has yet to come. Mothers do that with their kids. Every person makes a difference in their world, but some kids are born leaders. Every [...]

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Family Principles from Scripture

I’m really loving this kind of thing right now. I remember one time asking God why, if raising children is so important, He didn’t tell us more about how to do it. I have to laugh at myself about that now, as I am discovering the vast amounts He has to say on the subject!

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The Importance of Our Job as Mothers

“Children are a public trust – Now, that work which is of most importance to society is the bringing-up and instruction of the children – in the school, certainly, but far more in the home, because it is more that anything else the home influences brought to bear upon the child that determine the character [...]

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Summer Evening

We had the best time outside tonight. I wish I could transport you to our backyard for the night. It’s quiet here, and you hear the birds chirp and dogs bark from the other side of the ravine behind our neighbor’s yard. The air smells sweet with pine needles and grass and wild flowers, and [...]

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Encouragement

This has been kind of a tough week for me, for various reasons. Staci sent me this site last week, and it has provided so much encouragement to me this week, both spiritually and in the food area. I have never found any site that had recipes with only things we can all eat! Plus, [...]

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Helen Keller

Have you seen this new picture of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan that they just found? I’m fascinated. Like probably pretty much everybody, I read a biography of Helen Keller as a child. Did you remember that Sullivan was 20 years old when she started working with Keller? I didn’t. As I look at the [...]

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Who I Am In Christ

Years ago, they handed this out at church. I have hung onto it, and I thought I’d share it. Actually, what I do with this is put it inside a big ziplock bag and stick it to the wall of my shower. Then I read it every day. Sometimes I can’t get all the way [...]

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Secret Service

Glenn Packiam just started a new blog, which promises to be a great read. His second post is about the value of serving in secret, and I can’t think of a more encouraging thing for stay-at-home moms to read. I find it odd that when we encourage high school and college kids to find their [...]

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God is cool

My friend Thea has such a cool story to tell that I asked her if I could share it. For the past several months, she’s been dealing with a posterior placenta previa in her second pregnancy. If you don’t understand previa, here’s a place to read about it. She was scheduled for her second c-section [...]

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