BBi2013, Week 5 :: Find Like-Minded Confidants
Most people won’t get you. Oh, they may like you well and good—-want to be with you, meet you for coffee, sit next to you in church, invite your kids for play dates—-but they won’t understand your...
View ArticleBBi2013 Week 7: Define Success
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed).” ― Dr. Seuss, I...
View ArticleBBi 2013, Week 10 :: Be Quiet
“Quiet time is often not quiet. Our designated prayer time is generally consumed by hurried meditation on a scripture passage, a run through the Rolodex of persons to intercede/petition for, and...
View ArticleBBi 2013, Week 11: Live Debt-Free
I just got home from a week in Washington DC. Which got me thinking…what a great time to discuss debt! (Five days straight with 200 eighth-graders, and I’m still cracking jokes. You’re prayers at work,...
View ArticleBBi-2013, Week 12: Be an Extravagant Giver
Frugal living is sometimes a cover up for fearful living. We live frugally, not because we are free, but because we are afraid. Afraid the economy will collapse or our investments will crash. Afraid...
View ArticleBBi-2013, Week 14: Give Your Funk to God
I don’t even know where to start with this post. This is a blog about living a well-balanced life, right? Well here it is. This is what I’m trying to balance right now: I’m in a blog funk. And I feel...
View ArticleA Parenting Pep Talk. To Me, From Me. But Also, to You.
“the degree and intensity you have to fight for something is directly related to how much it matters to you.” Jon Acuff In four short years, this beautiful child of mine will be an adult. Which is so...
View ArticleFitness Friday :: Spinach Egg Wraps
Two things that seem like more trouble than they are worth since school let out: 1. blogging 2. cooking So, today I throw all caution to the wind and choose to blog about cooking. Do hard things,...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Real Beauty (A Letter to My Daughter)
I wrote the following letter to Rebekah when she was 10-years-old in the 5th grade. She is now almost 15 and in high school. It is eerie how prophetically accurate it is. (Not because I’m a prophet....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Great Moments in Parenting
Last week I posted a Facebook status that read: “Confessions of a real mom: sometimes I pretend to need to use the restroom so I can send a text without someone talking to me.” What followed was a...
View ArticleBring Balance to Your Life (and Joy to Everyone Else)
I’ve discovered a secret to balance. A way to repel haters, whiners and life-suckers. A way to exit a conversation without feeling the need to rehash, second-guess or defend every word I speak. A way...
View ArticleOn Self-Pity and Choices
Yesterday I threw myself a good old-fashioned pity party. It started a few days earlier when one of my children stated emphatically that I was not entitled to a bite of his pancake because I didn’t pay...
View ArticleBe a Life-Giver to a Tired Mom
Motherhood is exhausting, even on a normal day. That’s not a complaint, it’s a documented fact.* Consider, God immerses The New Mom into the beauty and wonder of Motherhood by giving her a most fragile...
View ArticleExposing the Lies Moms Believe: A New Series
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett, author Lately, I’ve been paying special attention to the voice inside my head. Have you ever done this? Truly listened to...
View ArticleExposing the Lies Moms Believe, Part One: The Source, The Susceptible and The...
You can read the introduction to this series here. The Source Let’s make something abundantly clear from the get-go: You have an enemy who wants to destroy you, and he is a liar. In fact, every lie...
View ArticleExposing the Lies Moms Believe, Part Two: I Don’t Have Enough Time
For Part One, Click Here I didn’t get enough sleep I don’t have enough time. I told you last week, these are the two lies I hear in my head every day, without fail. They are the first lies of the day,...
View ArticleExposing Lies Moms Believe, Part Three: Good Moms Don’t Miss Award Ceremonies
For Part Two, Click Here I’ve asked several of my Blogging Mom Friends (great name for a garage band) to help me out with this series. Please welcome my dear friend, Shelly. “Mom, you don’t need to...
View ArticleExposing Lies Moms Believe, Part Four: I’m a Bad Mom
For Part Three click here. I distinctly remember a time before I believed The Lie. I was heading out for a walk with a neighbor. We were both strapping our babies into strollers, tucking blankets...
View ArticleExposing Lies Moms Believe, Part 6: What Works for Them Should Work for Us...
For Part 5 Click Here Women spend a lot of time entangled in The Comparison Trap—way too much time. We are constantly looking around to see what everyone else is doing, how well they are doing it, and...
View ArticleExposing Lies Moms Believe, Part 7: Good Moms Don’t Yell
This is yet, another one of my amazing Mom friends here to help me out with this series. What I love most about Stephanie is the way she approaches life with simplicity, practicality and humor. I get...
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