EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
School started a week ago, but it seems more like a lifetime. My third grader is blossoming, and Rachel’s special needs classroom is a good environment. There isn’t much on the walls, so it’s not over-stimulating. It’s a big room with clearly designated play areas. There is even a connected bathroom. But I still feel [...]
Recently while shopping, I noticed hurried parents juggling a school supply list, jostling impatient children through the rows of supplies, and negotiating preferences in backpack designs and binder colors while ticking off the budget restraints. Yes. Summer is over, and school is in! A new school year, new teachers, and classmates kept our home ablaze with [...]
In part 2 of our interview, Mary Beth Chapman talks about balancing life with all of the many responsibilities that come along with it and gives us all permission to say ‘No’ when necessary.
I received a note from a good friend who is reading the book Susan Yates and I wrote, “Barbara and Susan’s Guide to the Empty Nest.” She wrote, “Read more of the book last night and am so glad I did. I really drank in the chapter on loneliness. Between ministry and life stages I was so comforted [...]
Our dear friends have a son who was a handful. He experimented with drugs and alcohol. Upon graduating from high school he gladly announced that he heard if you sign up for YWAM, you can train in Maui. So he signed up. YWAM, by the way, stands for Youth With A Mission. Once you are done with the six-week [...]
7:45 a.m.: “Kids, please be ready to leave in 10 minutes.” 7:55 a.m.: “Kids, go get in the car and buckle up.” 7:55 a.m., notice son scrambling to find his shoes: “Son, I told you to get in the car.” 8:00 a.m.: Loud honking in the driveway while son is still in the house searching for shoes. [...]
Recently, Tracey was given an opportunity to spend some time with Mary Beth Chapman. The video below is the first of a four-part series of our interview with Mary Beth Chapman. In this installment, Mary Beth helps answer one of your questions about how she deals with depression. You can get Mary Beth Chapman’s new [...]
Your Back-to-School Relief List So … how many plates do you have spinning in the air right now? Back-to-school supplies, back-to-school paperwork, carpool, after school activities, school clothing buying, snack planning, meal planning, fall sporting events, school calendar activity scheduling, reorganizing summer fun into fall responsibilities … and on and on. It can be totally [...]
“Would you just behave?” I must admit that there are a lot of times when I would prefer that my kids would simply do what I asked them to do, for the love of Peter. Please just go put your pajamas on. Do not run around naked after the shower, racing between the bedrooms in [...]
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