Today was my parent teacher day in my daughter’s preschool class. When it was storytime, we all gathered on the floor while the teacher prepared to read a book to her class. A sweet little...
My three year old ate the tip off her red pepper at lunch yesterday, and then spent the next 10 minutes methodically trying to pick every seed from the pepper stem with her little toddler fingers....
The sun was high, the air hot and humid.
It was our last trip out on the boat for the summer. The deck of the pontoon boat was filled with family, and he didn’t feel like going swimming. But...
I was feeling overwhelmed. Again.
I looked longingly at my Bible on the coffee table, but knew the clock said I didn’t have time to read it.
I’d been up since 5 a.m. to have a Skype...
This year is the year of consequences at our house.
It sounds dubious, doesn’t it? It sounds harsh and dismal. It’s not. It’s actually rooted in love. Let me explain.
Awhile back,...
Living your best life. What’s keeping you from it, girl?
We hear about it all the time; it’s a trending hashtag, on shirts, baseball caps, and splattered across social media.
This week...
Today, I’m 31. And for the life of me, I cannot understand how. I’m pretty sure it was just a couple of years ago that I was 19 and crying that my teen years were almost over....
During a women’s meeting at church, a friend who volunteers in the children’s ministry started talking about my three-year-old daughter. She said she loves when my little one prays...
In this day and age, everywhere you turn people are giving advice about how to raise your children. If you’re a parent, I’m sure you know what I mean. A lot of the time, when you get...
There were vacuum lines in the carpet. Perfect little marks that prove I do actually clean my house once in a while after all. What made these little lines so extraordinary though, was the fact...