Pay Attention

I’m amazed at the things my children teach me about myself. Hannah has started noticing when Nick and I don’t do a very good job. The other day I was in a hurry to get everyone out the door, and just had Hannah and Audrey put their crocs on with no socks, in spite of [...]

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In which I start again…

I read a lot of blogs. Actually, that should say I’m subscribed to a lot of blogs. As of this writing, I have 706 unread blogs n my reader. That’s after I spent quite a bit of time last night on the iphone catching up, and more time this morning. Every 6 months or so, [...]

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When to say yes

Good advice from my pastor, on how to decide what deserves your time and energy, and what does not. May we all be clearer on what our assignment is!

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Contentment and Fairness

As parents, one of the pressures we often feel is to make everything “fair.” I loved this post this morning. If I treated my two children exactly the same, one of them would run the household and the other would wilt under the pressure. It would never work…

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Thoughts on Democracy

Came across this post today, where she took the time to type out a lengthy passage of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters – one of my favorites. If you take the time to read it, I think you’ll be struck, as I was, of how well Lewis described our current social and political situation. Lewis had [...]

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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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On "The Shack"

Glenn posted a blog that perfectly expresses my feelings about this book, even down to his hesitation to say anything. This is a book I will be skipping. I value too deeply the Holiness of God, the Biblical portrayal of the Trinity, the Church, Biblical submission, and many other ideas, to read something that may [...]

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Grocery Shopping and Contentment

My life is very different from this blogger’s, and therefore we do not always agree. But, I love her post today. This is how I am trying to approach our grocery shopping now. You can feel the place of peace and trust that she speaks from, even as you read her words. She touches on [...]

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A worthy life

I’m thinking about this passage this afternoon: “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Then he defines what a worthy life is: “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the [...]

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On Survival Mode

I hate it, to begin with. Audrey was so sick this weekend, and when people are sick other things don’t get done. I seriously woke up this morning to a kitchen full of pretty much every dish we own, dirty. I have been thinking and praying about this quite a bit lately: why is it [...]

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