Some family traditions are methodically planned out. Some start on accident, but turn into the most significant. Eighteen years ago I gave an antique key to my husband on our wedding night as a symbol. It was a symbol of me handing over the key to my heart to my soul mate. Little did I know how powerful that would Continue Reading →
Today my children decided to decorate our home for the Fall season. I guess they got tired of waiting for me. Well, they certainly didn’t do it the way I would’ve. It most definately doesn’t look like a page out of a magazine like I wish. Notice all of the accumulated stuff on top of our arcaic TV? Notice the Continue Reading →
As I sat in a special room of my house the other day, I read the question posed in a Family Fun magazine article, “How do you teach your children gratefulness?” Well that got me thinking…how DO I teach my children gratefulness? The way I see it, teaching gratefulness cannot be done without teaching compassion at the same time. They Continue Reading →
I was reading this article in the new Focus on the Family magazine. The basics of it was that we focus so much on what kids want to be when they grow up–their profession, not what type of person they will be. It really got me thinking and how I want to foster character, not the accomplished tasks in my Continue Reading →
Just this week, I had a little trip down memory lane. Remember that post I did called “Backseat Purpose”? It was about how your children need to feel more than loved. They need to feel that they are needed and have a purpose in your home. Well, I was thinking about that concept as I watched in amazement as my Continue Reading →
As I sat with my kids the other day and asked them to finish the sentence, “My favorite thing about Christmas is…”, I was shocked yet, overjoyed to hear them say that a well thought out tradition we had started was now their favorite thing about Christmas. It was a few Christmases back when I happened to stumble upon a Continue Reading →
Character is not something that you can teach your kids in one day. In fact, I’m pretty sure it will take a life time, but for now, my job is to help show my kids the building blocks of character. Another way I think about this is that right now I am helping piece together the skeleton of character for Continue Reading →
Character. They say that “character counts” and I know that I want my children to have character, but what exactly does that really mean? What does the word “character” mean? In my dictionary it says that character is the total picture of “features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.” Hmm…that made me do some Continue Reading →
I can clearly remember that moment when my daughter was still very little and I made a decision about her and my future children. I was standing outside of a Sunday School classroom and I noticed another little girl whose clothing was very mis-matched and she had topped off her outfit with sparkly, ruby-red slippers. I remember thinking, “I will Continue Reading →