This is his most recent creation. He used some left over cardboard and made a framed picture for me to hang. I asked him where exactly I should hang it and he already had the wall in my bedroom all picked out! The Talker is an avid lover of bats. He wanted to build a “bat house.” So he and Continue Reading →
Here are some of the ingenious ideas of The Talker. From top to bottom: First, this is the puppet he made of me. Doesn’t it look just like me? The next set of pictures is the hat he made based off an idea he saw elsewhere. He analyzed it and figured out how to make one of his own. It Continue Reading →
It’s easy for you to read my story with my son and to think that after that pivotal night, our trials were over. That is far from the truth. It was a long road of some good days and some tough ones. But here’s the thing, when I asked, God equipped me to raise my son. It did not happen Continue Reading →
I wrestle with myself all the way down the stairs as to whether I will put on my happy face or let it all hang out. Somewhere between the top and the bottom of the stairs, I decide that I am so far done that I am also done pretending. I am going to be real tonight. God knew exactly Continue Reading →
I remember that night as clear as if it happened just last night. Like I mentioned before, it was the night that changed everything. It was a Tuesday night, my husband was at a meeting that night and I am getting everything and everyone ready for Biblestudy to be held at our house. The kids are supposed to be upstairs Continue Reading →
In the beginning there was one child. And there was another on the horizon about 3 months later. Yes, my two first children are only 12 months apart and, no, I did not plan that. This was so far from my plan that I wrestled with that pregnancy and then that child, The Talker, for longer than I care to Continue Reading →
In a home full of children, how do I manage to treat each one of them fairly–that’s what I should do, right? It sure is what I’d like to do, but a phrase that my children have heard pretty much since birth is that “life is not fair.” I don’t even have to say it anymore. They do a nice Continue Reading →
I’ve wanted to cover this topic for awhile, but it is such a huge topic that I have been apprehensive, wondering where to start. I think I’ll start with prayer. If one (or maybe more than one) of your children is especially tough for you to parent, like I do, then I have a story to share with you. For Continue Reading →
This Mama has caught a sore throat and stuffy nose. So the post I had started will have to go on hold until I’m feeling a bit more like writing than resting. Just to keep myself in the habit of writing each day, here’s a quick, simple and yet healthy dinner we whipped up tonight. I wasn’t much for making Continue Reading →
I was thinking a bit more about what I wrote recently about being bold enough to seek out a woman to mentor you. I wanted to add a few thoughts. Mentoring doesn’t have to come in the form of just one woman. It can be also be done indirectly from a series of women. You could be mentored–of sorts–by a Continue Reading →