Raising kids. Keeping House. Choosing joy, every day.
Update: Hey girls, I’m reposting this from the archives, because I get this question quite a bit. 🙂 Happy Planning! I received this question yesterday on balancing ministry and children from a lovely reader and thought I would post on this topic. Q: 1. How …
Just a quick post to share a few fabulous resources with you. I’m currently reading Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World Study Guide: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life by Joanna Weaver and highly recommend it. I have the print …
I’m a homeschooling mom of nearly 20 years and I’m weary. This post is to help you, the weary, burnt-out homeschooing mom, embrace a word that we seem to ignore: enough. Homeschooling moms have many wonderful qualities to be sure, but I’m not sure that …
Women today are more highly connected than ever before and yet many attest to being lonely. When I think of lonely woman, my mind immediately pictures an 1800’s Pioneer woman with no neighbors for miles. Or an elderly woman in a nursing home, or a mom …
I can’t help but notice a common thread in many of our new year’s resolutions. Not only can our resolutions show where our desires have gone outside of the bounds of God’s word driving us towards our small idols, but our resolutions sometimes reveal …
It’s a new year with a clean slate and 2014 has no mistakes in it yet. I woke to a foot of snow this morning and was reminded how the snow covers all the flaws of our back yard and makes it beautiful, just like …
Well, friends, 2013 is coming to an end. Today, I’m reflecting on the past year and praying about what God has for me this coming year. Sometimes reflecting brings discouragement. Let me encourage you, though, that a bad day does not make a bad year. …
There is a little verse in James that has always given me trouble. “Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” James 1:19 I’ve memorized it, recited it, posted it around the house, and still, I struggle with this. It’s …
Merry, merry Christmas! My girls are home from Bob Jones University for three weeks and I’m in the thick of Christmas vacation, parties, visiting and cooking. I’m honestly loving every minute of it, though I drop into bed exhausted at night. 🙂 This Christmas, the …
One thing I’ve learned recently is that many, many people have heavy hearts at Christmas time. This year, especially, it seems that people around me have so much to bear. I know I’m clueless, because I’ve only known happiness at Christmas, but God has seen …