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Fun Giveaway for You via Keeplets!

UPDATE: WE HAVE A WINNER! Christina Fletcher!! EMAIL ME YOUR INFO SO I CAN MAIL THIS OUT TO YOU!! 🙂 Today I have a fun giveaway for you and a little girl in your life courtesy of Jennifer from Keeplets. Have you heard of them?  Keeplets 

Have We Lost Something? Missionary Wives Speak. Pt 2

Today is part two of “Have We Lost Something?” and we are hearing from Missionary Wives who have graciously agreed to answer some questions about their experiences coming back to the US from the foreign mission field. Yesterday’s post (part 1) was this blogs highest read 

Have We Lost Something? Missionary Wives Speak.

Do you ever wonder if we have lost something as American Christians? Have we lost perspective? Focus? Are our eyes on the right goals? We live in the wealthiest country in the whole world in a continual state of relative ease and comfort. Being a 

Why You Should Carefully Consider Your Mentors {and what to look for!}

This week I wrote my most controversial article to date. It was a negative book review of Debi Pearl’s Created To Be His Helpmeet. I gave one reason to not read the book: because it was not “Christlike” in spirit and we tend to become 

Why I Won’t Recommend the Pearl’s Books

This is my first ever negative book review. I usually don’t waste my time telling you about books that I dislike. I’d rather emphasize the positive and move on to tell you about titles that I feel are edifying and helpful. But, after Tim Challais 

Small and Insignificant

“What did you do today?”–my friend asks and I really have no answers. My mind ponders, and tries to recall. I did do things, but they seem so insignificant. Too small to mention.   Late at night Hopie snuggles close, and says: “Thank you for 

Fighting Back When You Are Feeling Down

Last week, a friend from church shared with me that she was in a “funk.” That was the first time I had heard that word. What she meant was that she was feeling down and was unable to pick herself up from her slump. She 

Things You’ll Like, Kids Pics and A Free Ebook

First off, I have to show you a picture that a sweet German lady named Rebecca emailed me of my Rebekah in Germany: And here is my second daughter, Emily who is at two weeks of CIT training at the Wilds of New England. Here 

Protecting Your Kids By Just Saying NO.

This past week we enjoyed our first camping trip as a family. One day we took a five mile bike ride on the Cape Cod Bike Trail that led us into the quaint little town of Orleans. We were thrilled to come upon an awesome 

The Verdict is in on Camping. {plus photos}

Two weeks ago, I was sitting at my parent’s house paging through Cape Cod Life magazine. An article about Yurts caught my eye, so I looked them up online. It brought me to a website I had visited before: Nickerson State Park. My husband and