Homeschool Holiday Volunteering!
What are you doing for your Christmas homeschool break? Shopping? Traveling? Opening your home to family and friends? Have you thought about adding “volunteering” to…
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Prosthetics
“Excuse me, but your daughter’s foot fell off,” the Sunday school teacher leaned over the row of seats and whispered in my husband’s ear. Sometimes…
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Surprising Lessons from Jury Duty: God Makes a Way to be a Mom
I must confess to a not-so-generous reaction when I was summoned for jury duty recently. Sadly, my thought process was not, “Oh, good, I have…
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The Dark Place
There have been times when I entered an unknown space … hopeful, excited anticipation. Unaware of what exists there. I sit down in that space….
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Got Wisdom?
As believers we are called to love God and love others. We accomplish this by seeking after God with all our hearts and leaning not…
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Ditching the Holiday Diva
Some people look forward to the holidays. Some dread it. Some can’t remember what day it is in general. As a mom of two—one “neuro-typical”…
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All I Want For Christmas Is You
I am a straight up Scrooge until Black Friday. Can’t stand the site of a Christmas tree until then, and I gasp if anyone plays…
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Looking Forward to the Long Car Ride … Amazingly Enough!
For the holidays every year we have very specific traditions in our family. For Thanksgiving we load up the kids into our minivan and drive…
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Help! I Feel Like I’m Ruining My Kids.
“I’m the worst mother in the world. I think I’m ruining my kids,” I exclaimed as tears began to cloud my vision. Once again “Miz…
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Got Room?
Do you have room for one more child? While we lived in a little three-bedroom house, we adopted three kids to add to the three…
