Last summer, as many of you will remember, our daughter and son-in-law gave birth to their first-born, a little girl named Molly, who only lived seven short days. Her life was…
Babies & Toddlers
Praying with Your Kids: Just do It!
Not too long ago I was telling you about my conviction that I needed to cultivate moments of quiet and peace in my home and in my kids. After all,…
Rice Krispies Mother’s Day Mug
Mother’s Day is coming! Sometimes we can get it in our head that our children are going to instinctively work at making Mother’s Day great for us. However, we are the…
Praying for Pirates
My boys’ love for the VeggieTales’ Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything has mercifully saved me from a phase of them having heroes who pillage and destroy—not unlike the Somali pirates we’ve…
Problem Child
“I DON’T WANT TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!” He was doing that distinctive wiggle on his chair, and he’d been doing it for 10 minutes. Rather than another last-minute dash upstairs, I hefted his…
Sleepless Moms
I am having a week where I am busier than usual, and add to that a sick kid, and sleep for me has been fleeting lately. Actually I have been feeling sort of…
Three-Year-Olds
Several of my young friends have three-year-olds. I myself have four grandchildren in or nearly in this age group. All of us agree that the threes have become the “terrible…
Daddy’s Home
I had to laugh last night—when my husband arrived home from work I was in the middle of a mess in the kitchen, my son was in his room with…
A New Appreciation for Preschool Parents and Teachers
This morning as I jumped into the car after dropping of my youngest at her preschool for special needs, my phone rang. I answered, unsuspecting. “Jennifer?” I heard a measure of desperation…
A Full Drawer of Imagination
Fostering creativity in my kids is a big deal to me as a mom. God Himself is infinitely creative (see Genesis 1), so I think that ingenuity is a way of reflecting…