My eyes scanned the crowd looking for his face. I was performing yet again in my high school choir and I just wanted to see one thing: my dad in the audience. It wasn’t that I didn’t think my dad loved me. I knew he did, or at least I thought I knew. He worked,…
Sitting on the deck in the dark of the night, I suddenly felt the urge to cover my face with my hoodie. My daughter had convinced me to take yet another personality test. The results…well they really weren’t that revealing. Reading the traits out loud took me back to grade school. I could still…
This week on Raising Brave Beauties, Michelle Nietert and I are joined by Tricia Goyer and her daughter Florentina! Tricia has written 75 books and has a wealth of information for homeschooling, parenting, and raising kids. She has a large family and has been blessed to adopted through the foster care system. Join us as…
Parents feel the pressure to parent well. But life, especially right now, makes that hard. This is why I’m so excited to announce that I will be speaking at the online Perfectly Imperfect Christian Parenting Event on October 23-24th. This completely digital event was designed for parents like you as a time to set…
I know. It was a long time ago when you were a young girl. We forget what it was like way back then. (That’s one reason I read my diaries from that time … to help me remember and relate!) Maybe you too can remember, snippets of that time. Asking questions as you looked…
As a young mom, I truly believed that if I gave my child all the teaching and training I could they would simply by-pass the hard things, make great decisions and life would be rosy. If I had heard this podcast conversation that Michelle and I had with Barb Roose, I would have been more…