Does your family have special things you do every Christmas season? I asked my family “What are your favorite Christmas traditions?” “We don’t have any.” WHAT?! Then I re-phrased the question, “What are your favorite things we do every Christmas?” Now I was getting somewhere! I’d love to share some of our’s and hear some…
Christmas and newlyweds. What a wonderful time! Greg and I were both working full time; trying our best to be wise with what we had and get ourselves off to the right start before we started a family. Requiring him to travel every day, Greg’s work was demanding and brought him home late at night….
“Mom, I want to do Black Friday this year! I want to wake up with the family EARLY and go!” my fifteen year old daughter announced to me this week. “I just love to get the paper on Thursday night and look at all the ads with everyone!” Several thoughts crossed my mind: #1) That…
“Mom, you know I hate to wait!” I had just delivered some disappointing news to my daughter and she didn’t like what she had heard. The fact was, I didn’t like what I said! I don’t like to wait either; especially on things you really want? How do you best communicate with a twelve year-old…
Today, I am hosting Joan Webb and her new book “It’s A Wonderful (Imperfect) Life! Today’s devotion is called: Joy-filled Honesty Joy belongs to those who are honest. -Psalm 97:11, NCV When my daughter was about twenty years old she and I drove to my parents’ home in the Midwest. During our visit, Dad asked…
For those of you joining us today from the Proverbs 31 devotion today, welcome! Jesus. Some days just thinking of how perfectly this Man loves me completely blows me away! I just don’t grow tired of rehearsing in my mind and heart that the Creator of this incredible earth is in love with me! Simple…