EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
“You look festive!” My friend looked over my golf-ball-sized silver hoops, turquoise tank, knit plum skirt. It was one of my more art teacher-ish outfits. She was right: I love color. I fit right in here with Uganda’s vibrant shades that bob down the street, wrap coarse heads, or dangle from flower stems—though the brighter [...]
It was the dress rehearsal for “The Pirates of Penzance” at a local Christian school. A friend had asked me to pitch in on the stage makeup and I was backstage, gleefully smearing grease-paint handlebar mustaches and bloody-looking scars of eyeliner on junior highers. For most of the boys, it was their first day both [...]
It’s enough to drive us parents crazy, especially when we’ve just come through Christmas and the kids have presents galore, have been entertained nonstop by others, and have enjoyed many special events in the last few weeks! Add to this tension the exhausted parents. Come on, we need a break! Coming out of Christmas and into bleak winter days [...]
I’m definitely not going to win the “coolest mom” award on this post. It might even seem to contradict some things that I’ve previously written on my blog. However, I fear we’re headed down a slippery slope when it comes to parenting and we at least need to start talking about it. For some reason, as moms, we have this [...]
My summer reading list included a book by Kay Wills Wyma entitled,Cleaning House: A Mom’s 12-Month Experiment to Rid Her House of Youth Entitlement. It was a wonderful recommendation from a mother of three school-age children. It is a must read that equips a parent with practical, no-nonsense advice on how to raise a child [...]
What I wanted to say was, “That’s too hard, cut him some slack.” What I did say was, nothing. But MAN was it hard to bite my tongue. That’s my little boy he’s talking to. (As in 6’1” and 220 pounds…”little” but he is my little boy.) Such were my thoughts at the beginning of [...]
I love words. I like to write them, speak them, and explore their meanings and uses. When I am sharing a story or joke with my family, they will roll their eyes and groan, “To make a short story long…” My preteen daughter and I love to sit and chat, walk and talk, drive and [...]
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? [...]
It was one of those busy days– my cleaning day. I had loads of laundry to wash and fold and I broke out the old Dirt Devil for the endless crumbs that tend to accumulate in our home. The kids were settled for the mid-morning. The girls, sitting quietly in the back watching Dora the [...]
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 [...]
