Sometimes, as parents, it’s easy to forget that our role should resemble that of teacher more than that of hall monitor. I find there are days that I seem to spout off rules left and right with the words seeming to float into oblivion without being heard or understood by the little ears they were [...]
Archive for February 2011
Teacher Not Hall Monitor
Posted 25 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
I Embrace the Challenge
Posted 11 February 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, family | Categories: Faith | Leave a Comment
As we reach the end of another long week without my husband here, I’m reminded of what we prayed a few years ago when we decided to change the way we live. We knew becoming debt free was going to be a struggle and since it was a mess that we got ourselves into, we [...]
Accountability Partner
Posted 10 February 2011 by adminTagged As: | Categories: Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Sometimes I think God listens to the desires of our hearts and provides a means to receive those desires…it’s just not always how we want it to go. This morning was a perfect example. I’ve been complaining to my husband about needing more time in my day so I can start working out again. I’ve [...]
Fear and Faith Cannot Abide Together
Posted 9 February 2011 by adminTagged As: faith | Categories: Faith | Leave a Comment
Yesterday I had an epiphany moment. Which, in retrospect, is quite humorous that it’s taken me this long in my life to see it with such clear focus. Especially being that I’ve spent my entire life immersed in the Word of God, being from a Christian family and attending church and even private school and [...]
When Your Kids Won’t Eat Dinner
Posted 9 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
My kids have never been really good eaters. In fact, it used to be a major struggle getting them to eat dinner. So, what I’m about to write is coming from someone who knows what it’s like to fight with your kids and not from someone who’s just always had it easy at mealtime and [...]
The Fatherless
Posted 8 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, home, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Parenting | 2 Comments
Adoption and foster care have been on my mind a lot over the past week. My husband and I have always said that these are things that we want to do later in life after we’ve finished having our own biological children. Foster care is what really pulls at the strings of my heart and [...]
Excuses Why I Can’t Be A Proverbs 31 Woman
Posted 7 February 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, family, home, marriage | Categories: Faith, Homemaking, Marriage | Leave a Comment
Here’s my attempt at using humor to add some insight into what it means to (not) be a Proverbs 31 woman in today’s world….hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Unfortunately, some of these rang all too true for me personally. (To get the full effect, take out your Bible and [...]
It’s The Thought That Counts
Posted 7 February 2011 by adminTagged As: faith | Categories: Faith | Leave a Comment
It’s the thought that counts…or is it? All day yesterday, I thought “I should write a post on my blog.” And then, this morning, I woke up thinking “I should write a post on my blog.” And yesterday at church, I heard my brother saying that he has good intentions of reading his Bible every [...]
Great Patience and Careful Instruction
Posted 4 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Homemaking, Parenting | 2 Comments
A few years ago I was reading my Bible and I came across 2 Timothy 4. I know I had read this passage before, but reading it again as a mom shed a whole new light on what it meant to me personally. It soon became a passage of Scripture that I based my mothering [...]
Building Blocks of Faith
Posted 2 February 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, marriage | Categories: Faith, Marriage | Leave a Comment
“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in [...]
