So Here’s the Thing – My New Podcast Series!
June 2014 is such an exciting month for me personally. My 10th book, I Need Some Help Here! Hope for When Your Kids Don't Go According to Plan, will officially drop (you know... like when Beyonce drops an album, only cooler...) (but is already available). And I'm just...
I Need Some Help Here! Launch Giveaway Week 1
Thank you to all of you Hope Heroes out there who are supporting the I NEED SOME HELP HERE! launch with all of your love, prayers and social media savvyness. This week we are giving away a $100 TARGET GIFT CARD!!! How do you get your hands on those bull’s-eye bucks?...
I Need Some Help Here! Launch Party Giveaways
Welcome to the I Need Some Help Here! Launch Party Over the next few weeks, we’ll be giving away one AMAZING giveaway every single week. I’m so excited to be able to share our stories of struggles and successes in this book. It's been a long time coming for me and the...
Bad Mom Mondays: When You Reap What You Didn’t Sow
When the snow drifts finally melted, and the threat of a hard frost was almost gone, I made the announcement to my boys: “We’re planting a garden!” As we gathered supplies, I congratulated myself for such a fun, educational, outdoorsy idea for my 5, 4, and 3 year-old...
50 Days of Hope Verse Flipper
For those of you that have ordered my new book I Need Some Help Here! Hope for When Your Kids Don't Go According to Plan, I want to say a BIG THANK YOU! For you, I have this exclusive, limited time gift - 50 Days of Hope Through God's Word verse flipper. It is super...
Summer Sanity: A Mom’s Guide to a Great Summer
Summer is almost here and I know that you want to avoid "couch zombie" syndrome! Sure it's quiet when your kid's face is in a screen, but I'm pretty sure that the glazed look in his eyes is not a good sign. Why not have an unplugged, memory-making kind of summer?...
Mama Bear vs The Mean Girl
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Philippians 2:3-4 When Annemarie was laid in my arms as a newborn, I felt the...
Small, Medium, Large- 3 Ways to Connect One on One with Your Child
There are all sorts of ways to do it, but here are three ways you can connect with each of your kids. GO Large Take Your Child on a one-on-one vacation. My friend Kim and her husband had long promised their children that when each of them turned sixteen, he or she...
2014 Things Challenge – Are you feeling behind? Don’t. You can do this.
After two book deadlines and a death in our family, I've gotten behind on the 2014 Things Challenge (haven't we all!?!) Well if you need a little inspiration, check out this post from Kori over at see-the-sunrise.com It's never too late! You can do this. Even if you...