EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
Moms and dads are supposed to protect their children, but though we try really hard it just isn’t possible to keep them from harm. It begins with skinned knees and goose eggs on the forehead which are usually made better with kisses and hugs and reassuring words from mom or dad. But as our children [...]
Be the mom! Hooray and congrats to Tracey on the birth of her newest baby! Her new book! It has been said that writing a book is like giving birth to a baby and it is true. Lots of hard work and anguish and tears go into a writing project. And lots of death to [...]
My youngest daughter has become the queen of pound cake bakers. She was here last week and whipped up two loaf pans of warm goodness for her parents and siblings to relish. Calorie free of course! The recipe was mine, I was once the supreme baker, having inherited the recipe from my grandmother, the grandmother [...]
My husband and I recently updated and revised Passport2Purity a great resource designed to connect parents and kids with one another while tackling important issues tweens and teens face today. One of the issues we cover is peer pressure. Or, how can I guide my children to make sure they run with the right herd? [...]
Dennis and I recently spent some time with our son Samuel, his wife, Stephanie, and their three beautiful children. Watching the two of them interact with these precious kids, especially their two sons who look so much like Samuel did as a little guy, I couldn’t help but notice how intentional they are in the day-to-day [...]
“Teens” is not a typo. I’m not talking about reading to toddlers, although I could write passionately about the value of reading to little ones. Today I want to challenge your thinking about teens.
We would be wealthy if we had a dollar for every time that phrase was uttered by our kids! Of course we told them over and over and over, “Life isn’t fair,” and yet how hard we worked as parents to make life fair for our kids. Especially at Christmas. Why? Because we wanted them [...]
Begrudgingly I walked into the Breast Center for my annual mammogram on April 1. “Why am I such a rule follower,” I asked myself as I waited my turn on the mashing machine. No family history, no risk factors. “Maybe I should do this every two years.” Four days later a phone call from a [...]
On June 13, 2008, our daughter and her husband welcomed their first baby into this world. But it was not what any of us expected. Sweet Molly, who was full term with a normal delivery, was born with an aneurysm in her brain and would not live. One week after her birthday, she left all of [...]
Editor’s Note: Read Part 1 Here, and Part 2 Here After falling in love at first sight, marrying eight days later, then moving to the new husband’s village, a young couple began life together. It was the early 1900’s in the country of Turkey. Armenians by heritage, they were part of a minority population within the [...]
