So it's summer now. However, contrary to all of our hopes and dreams, spring and warm weather did View Post
Introducing Your Child To God
Introducing Your Child To God Have you wondered how to share your faith with your child? This post View Post
One more plug for planning day (and how I spent mine)
Recently I talked about how wonderful, amazing, and productive it is to get out of the house and View Post
Is This The Good Life? Why You Should Enjoy (But Not Too Much) Having Little Ones
I was really not a good new mom. A friend of mine had her first baby in the hospital room next to View Post
Why are tantrums from someone else’s kid so funny? {and other questions about discipline}
This afternoon during the witching hour (when the boys were hammering each other with plastic food View Post
10 Ways To Celebrate a Christ-Centered Christmas With Little Ones
It's November as I write this. It's Christmas soon. I've thought about gifts, I've thought about View Post
What’s it’s like to be a mom with A.D.D.
A while ago I observed some classes at a local public middle school, for some graduate work I was View Post
Sunday, a day of rest …
Before this piece treads into the humorous and sarcastic, I want to give a disclaimer. There View Post
just a bunch of funny things from today
Some days are funnier in retrospect. Here's what happens on some of these days, like today, for View Post
Why Quiet Times are Difficult…Contest Winners!
First, a little story. Tonight, I made a hearty pot of local kale and white bean soup for dinner. View Post
Why Quiet Times are Difficult for Busy Moms: A confession and a contest
Recently I talked about how you don't need to give excuses for yourself all the time. I'm getting View Post
The Night Shift: How Parenting Never Stops
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my extra hour this year. One thing I do know, I probably will View Post
How To Get Your Kids To Eat (Almost) Anything
I have to start with this story. One time my Grammy served my mom and her siblings cow tongue for View Post
Today In Pictures: A House Where Kids Live
I've often thought an amusing photo-journalistic series would be: "Life, With Kids, Unedited." So View Post
Happy Hour
I think it's funny that to some people, 5:00 pm. is "happy hour." Actually, is it five? Is it six? I View Post
just a normal day. With poop. And sirens.
I know that some of you are very proper. And so I am going to keep this as subtle as possible. My View Post
the hard thing about being a mom
I feel like most people operate with a secret mentality that their job has one thing about it that View Post
The marriage bed is a sacred place…
Did I get your attention? Don't worry, this is about the actual bed. And how it's not sacred View Post
Part I: God Loves Mommy Ducks
I am such a little kid at heart. Actually, being quite honest in many ways I'm not. I get annoyed by View Post
you know it’s that time of month if…
I don't think this will be as funny to anyone as it is to me. Oh well. Modeled after the illustrious View Post
a blink of time
When we were in high school, my sisters and I babysat for a wonderful family. Two families View Post
Dear Steven Curtis Chapman
Dear Steven.Hi. We've known each other for a long time. We go way back. You probably remember that View Post
For future parents
Someone recently reminded me of the school project where kids carry around a plastic baby that View Post
No shortcuts
I don't really think of myself as a cheater, or lazy. And truth be told, those aren't my weaknesses View Post
help wanted :-)
First of all, a few notes. One. I am now completely, utterly confident that people who bring meals View Post
The jogger, the Westin, baby Ty and me
We welcomed Ty David into the world 2 1/2 weeks ago. He is healthy, sweet, and the spitting image of View Post
Raising Boys :)
It's different than I thought.I'm a caddie, a quarterback, a lineman, and a pitcher. I'm the stalker View Post
Tailor-made troubles and hand-picked kids
Do you know who Joni Erikson Tada is? My mom made us watch her bio video when we were kids, and View Post
