The beach is my favorite place to go in the summer, but it can be expensive and dangerous for a family full of pale skinned people. This year we actually managed to take a thrifty trip to Miramar Beach without getting sun-burned! Alan and I are always dreaming up fun things to do together as a family, and our efforts are often met with …….resistence. One of our fellas actually lamented, “I don’t want to go to the beach. I […]
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I don’t know about you, but I have always done some of my very best thinking during prayer time or listening to a church sermon. It isn’t on purpose. It’s just that it can be frustratingly hard to focus.
Prayer is something I start with the best of intentions. Like this…read it…it’s funny…..
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I recently made friends with a young Army widow with 2 elementary age school children. Her husband was a Ranger. She wasn’t expecting to live out life as a single mom either. Watching her is the most powerful reminder I’ve ever seen of just how great a sacrifice these men and their families have made.
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I hung the dress on the closet door, safely in its plastic bag, not touching the ground. I could just look at it and smile and think about how much fun I was going to have, going to the ball with my own Prince Charming.
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#6. The 1st year we live in a place, we are basically friendless, so we don’t even have anyone to dog sit for us on vacations.
Okay, yes, there are kennels. I know that, but this article is about why not, not about being positive and finding a way.
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This week I happened upon a super cute post by Janine Huldie titled The 8 Best Things About Having All Girls. I had to read it! I needed a sneak peek into what that world is like because, mamas, the view over here, in my house of many little men, is a whole lot different! Janine wrote a great article. You should totally go read it. Naturally, Janine’s list inspired me to type out my own best things about having […]
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I was supposed to get up at 7:30 to be at work at 8:30 that morning, but I overslept, such a typical college student I was…
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Today I have the honor of writing this article, 2 Must-Read Character Building Fiction Books for Tweens, over at LikeMindedMusings.com, as part of Lee Felix’s 30 Days of Tween Parenting Encouragement! For each day of May, Lee is featuring another blogging mom of tweens on her site to talk about this phase of parenting. There’s so much information out there for the years of parenting babies and toddlers, and then it feels like the older your kids get, the less […]
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I am going to tell my own personal story of being a military spouse through the War on Terrorism.
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You know what gets on my nerves the most? Arguing. All the kinds of arguing. I know when my kids argue it just means I’m going to end up having to deal with it. I know when my husband and I argue, I’m going to say something I regret. And yet, sometimes I find myself being argumentative. In fact, if someone tells me to do something I don’t want to do, I can become downright belligerent. It’s like a scab. […]
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