The Christmas Photo — What’s a Step family to do?
“My mom wants to have a new family picture taken for Christmas,” Tanya shared. “She updates the photo every few years and sends it with…
“My mom wants to have a new family picture taken for Christmas,” Tanya shared. “She updates the photo every few years and sends it with…
The holidays are coming… Does that phrase cause little tinkling bells of joy to ring in your ears? Or do sinister trombones of doom jolt…
Every year our parents ask for Christmas lists for our family. And every year I struggle to come up with enough ideas. I also dread…
This wasn’t the way it was supposed to go. It was supposed to go something like this: High school sweethearts get married. Work hard, buy a cute house….
When God called us to adopt, we had one week to prepare our home for a new little baby. We didn’t know much about the…
For the last 32 hours my home has been filled with a dozen 15 – 16 year old boys enjoying a bevy of guy like…
Sometimes evil exposed gives us pause to embrace fear for our children. But we cannot. In the past 11 days, my little community of State…
When you are searching for affirmation … try someone – like God – instead of your teenage son! This past weekend I had a wonderful…
A month after welcoming our toddler son home, I sobbed to my Bible Study sisters, “We prayed for this for the past year. Remember? We…
Until very recently, I lived in a place called Blissful. Just as the name would imply, it was a terrific place to grow up. So…