Photo credit Imagine with me… Scenario #1: Your best friend calls you and asks you to pick her up at the super mega huge airport nearby at 5pm. You arrive. People everywhere. Pushing past you. You get jostled this way and that as you realize you don’t know where to go. She didn’t tell you [...]
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Today is Motivation Monday! Tell us in the comments if you’ve taken action and get today’s giveaway which is…. Photo Credit Drumroll… I’m so excited about todays giveaway, because everyone is a winner today! A wonderful blog reader (who prefers to remain anonymous) created a prayer calendar similar to our “Praying Daily For Your Children” [...]
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I don’t know about you, but every year when May comes around, I find myself wishing for a clone. In a four week span I have summer camps, VBS, 2 school field trips, 3 school parties, 1 school performance, a kindergarten graduation, house guests, birthday parties, and about 12 things I’ve already forgotten. Can anyone [...]
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Today is Motivation Monday! Tell us in the comments if you’ve taken action and get a chance to win today’s giveaway which is another CD from the Seeds Family Worship Series. This one is called Seeds of Praise. I haven’t heard it yet, but I just ordered my own copy and if it’s anything like [...]
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Desperately. Completely. Passionately. Ultimately. Incomprehensibly. Fully. Oh, how He loves us. Destructively. Our regrets, fears, failures, weaknesses, excuses, justifications, failed dreams and deepest scars are destroyed in the presence of a love so deep and furious that He’d trade His perfect Son…for us. For me. For you. In light of that exchange, how can our [...]
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The first posts in this series are here, here and here. Today we have a few more tips on setting summer goals with our kids. No one wants to feel overwhelmed by work in the summer so the key to setting a good summer goal(s) is to make sure the activity is something they love [...]
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Today is Motivation Monday! Tell us in the comments if you’ve taken action and get a chance to win today’s giveaway which is the Seeds of Purpose CD. If you haven’t heard of the Seeds Family Worship CD’s, you can thank me later. They’re an awesome combo of excellent music that’s fun for kids AND [...]
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We live in Texas. Texas is awesome. Texas is big. When we take a vacation, it takes half our time just to get out of the state. Our road trips are always at least 6 hours, but more often 12-26 round trip. As a result, we have to be very intentional about planning in order [...]
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(Bandana on ponytail? Check. Sleeves rolled up? Check. Glow in the dark shirt TUCKED IN? Check. Clearly, I was a fashion icon.) The summer I turned 7 my family surprised me and took me to an Amy Grant concert. As is embarrassingly evident in this picture (taken when I was 12), I was a huge [...]
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Today is Motivation Monday! Tell us in the comments if you’ve taken action and get a chance to win today’s giveaway which is Francine Rivers‘ latest book, Her Mother’s Hope. It’s the only nonfiction book I’ve read in a REALLY long time and it was excellent. I was actually a bit obsessive about reading it. [...]

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