A couple of my friends have girls in the fifth grade. This spring semester has smacked them in the face with the reality of how quickly kids transition from innocent children to the things of teens—thus the need for the tween category. Both moms were not ready for the issues […]
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Create Margins & Add “Me-Time” to 2013
“And then I need to add margins to my life,” my friend matter-of-factly said as she explained to me her process in planning the next few months of her life. For her, margins are a given. She wouldn’t consider overfilling her days or weeks. But most of us consider overfilled […]
Read More...Ghost of Christmas Past: Jobless at Christmas
My most memorable Christmas was not my most fun Christmas in the Norman Rockwell sense. At Christmas in 1988 I was seven and a half months pregnant with Kelsey and Katie had just turned two. Gene had been laid off since October. Our finances were lean, so Gene and I […]
Read More...What to Do When the Risk Doesn’t Pay off as Expected: Follow-up to the Art Conference
Last week Katie attended her first art/jewelry conference and I tagged along for moral support. Everything didn’t go as well as she hoped for. She learned a lot, but she also experienced major disappointments. At one point she questioned why she came. I ached for her and felt powerless to […]
Read More...This is Foolishness!
While I was looking for a past blog to potentially republish this morning, I saw a theme in my blogging—dealing with worry and stress. Over the years that seems to be my continual struggle. And today I wanted a shortcut to help me with my stress. Okay, this is it–Enough […]
Read More...Getting to Know Women of the Bible
Have you started your study of the women of the Bible yet? I am loving it! I started with Eve (Genesis 2-3:7). I’m following the numbered questions I listed in my last blog. 1. Who? Eve. 2. She is the first and only woman made directly from the hand […]
Read More...Fierce (and maybe not so fierce) Women of the Bible
Yesterday I read a couple of blogs regarding women’s roles in the church and their satisfaction with their roles. The authors presented interesting and challenging information they said was backed by biblical truth. (Sidebar here: You know how we women can have 20 million thoughts going through our head at […]
Read More...How My Praying Life is Changing
I’m sorry to share with you how lacking in faith my prayers have been over the past few months. The more discouraged in prayer I became the less I saw God answering my prayers. Sure, I’d see God answer requests, but my thankfulness was immediately evaporated by the next request […]
Read More...Time to Re-evaluate Where You Want to Go (and, How You Want to Get There).
I talk quite a bit about dealing with transitions in life. It seems we are almost always in transition. When my kids were babies, we’d settle into a predictable feeding and napping schedule and then a couple of months later they grew out of that schedule and I’d work through […]
Read More...Remodel In Progress
Hey, Friends! I’m in the middle of a remodel! You know how remodels go–a little messy, a little longer than you expected, but will be so worth it all. That being the case, my archived blogs were held hostage by the old server. LeAnne, my amazing assistant, and I will […]
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