The latest from my blog

After my last post, I'd really like to give some serious credit to single mamas (and also single dads).  It's a very real tragedy, in our society, that there are so many single parents out there.  Those folks have it hard.  Their kids have it hard.  In an un-fallen...

When folks ask me what I do for work, I always tell them in the same sequence... "I'm a stay at home mom"... (pause and observe facial expression)... "And I'm a soap-maker." And I always seem to get the same response.  Bored sounding "Oh" inserted in the long pause....

I don't know how I missed it before... and somehow I feel like most of us have missed it.  I've heard the story a million times, it seems, and somehow we all seem to miss the significance of the pure nard. Mary enters the room, carrying a vial of perfume worth a years...

We have this extra kid that hangs out with us regularly.  We sometimes refer to him as our 4th child.  Not that he's been technically adopted, but we just love him a lot.  We would technically adopt him if he needed it and we could manifest the kind of money you need...

I was recently pondering 2 types of parenting, and the worldview that our kids usually adopt as a result of them.  (There's a whole different kind of warped idea that kids get from absent or negligent parents.  I'm not dissecting that one right now, but I think we see...

Lately I've been fighting the selfishness that I adopted from my first parents (Adam and Eve).  It doesn't take work to be selfish (the same is true with our kids, but that's for another blog).  It doesn't take any effort to think that I am vastly more important than...

I thought of titling this post "Raising Kids without Rules".  Kind-of attention grabbing, especially knowing our kids that are pretty respectful and sweet, and not the sort-of breed of kids that are birthed out of homes where they just let their kids "grow like weeds"...

I've been in swimming through Isaiah for a couple of weeks now and there's one specific verse that seems to be reverberating off the inside walls of my skull.  It says "this people draw near with their words and honor Me with lip service, but they remove their hearts...

My husband encouraged me to write about parenting.  He knows I love it!  I've spent the past 16+ years trying to perfect it.  Haven't gotten there yet, however, and I have no experience at all with raising girls.  In fact, I kinda think of little girls like aliens,...

"Let Mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice Because of Your judgment. Walk about Zion and go around her, Count her towers, Consider her ramparts, Go through her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation." Psalm 48:11-13      I recently...

"Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness." Hebrews 3:7-8     Oh how this speaks to me and my wayward heart.  Lately, I have been hearing Him say "Seek first My kingdom and My righteousness and...