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Is something tripping you up that's making it hard for you to press on? Think about it for a minute. Maybe you’re able to list a dozen things, but can you single out just one? What’s the one thing that, if fixed, would offer vast improvement? Is the house such a wreck...

In the first week of this new year, my Dad was hospitalized with Congestive Heart Failure, my brother was diagnosed with Cancer, and our family's beloved Pediatrician and friend of 30 years took his own life after struggling with Dementia and Parkinson's. I am...

I remember thinking when our children were young, that I had no idea where life would take them. (With our children now having spent time in every continent except Australia, how true that has turned out to be!) So I wanted God’s Word to go with them wherever they may...

If it's 10 o'clock in the morning and you're already pulling out your hair with your little ones, let me pass on a secret to you. After 35 years of parenting, it's actually the thing that I can trace back to our kids' early beginnings of the security and stability...

Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong. "We could go on like this for hours," we laughed. My 85-year-old mother and I had ridden our bikes to the Rec Center where we picked up the paddles and had a blast! In the month of October, I had the privilege of taking some time off...

A couple of decades ago, when our older children were growing into their teen years, my husband said to me that, "We should not be surprised at anything our kids say." He saw something coming, which I did not. Communication had always been quite abundant and open at...

Are you discouraged today? Are you one who is familiar with discouragement, like me? It should be no surprise that discouragement is pretty common among homeschool moms. I mean, we're responsible for our kids' health and well-being, character development, and oh yeah,...

Thirty-five years ago my husband and I had our first baby, a precious daughter we named Kristin. Over the next 17 years, we had seven more children, each one as precious and unique as the other. Now our family of ten has multiplied to 22 and counting. Over the last...

If there is a magic word in parenting, it is consistency. Consistency is what makes all other aspects of parenting come together and produce success. Where is the value in setting a good example, quality expectations, or appropriate consequences, unless they are...

I don’t remember what precipitated things that day so long ago, but I remember in anger toward my husband, jumping in our van and hitting reverse to get out of there. I remember the look on his face, a mix of frustration and helplessness. I mean, what is a husband to...