Raising kids. Keeping House. Choosing joy, every day.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …