How to Make Homemade Blue Ice
How to Make Homemade Blue Ice My hubby Roger has been having some foot trouble lately. I think it is from an over abundance of Disney walking. So while Roger wants to have happier feet, he is not willing to give up our Disney trip in November. He is launching a full...
Tip #2 for Achieving Your Goals this Week – Accontability
See below how to win a copy of The Me Project! We are in the midst of s series about achieving your goals (see the first post and my to-do list at Tip # 1: Make a Monday List.) This week I want to talk about the next most important ingredient in getting things done...
Summer Sanity
A Guest Post from Kimberly Gonsalves OK, I’ll say it: yes, it’s great to have kids out of school. And it can be hard! Many of our support systems take hiatus during summer. Routines change. There’s often less external structure. We have to create more of it ourselves....
Taming Your To-Do List
I looked at my to do list and there was nothing on it but guilt, unrealistic expectations, and oh, did I mention guilt? Why do I keep adding things to my list that have now business being there? God has not given you more than you can handle, but there are so...
Wives – How to Encourage Your Kid’s Dad (From a Real Live Man)
Thanks to author Rob Tiegen for his insightful and encouraging ways to love on the dads in our lives. Be sure to check out our giveaway at the bottom for your chance to win. As of this Father’s Day, I’ve been a father for 19 years. I have a son and three daughters...
When You Feel Insufficient
My husband, Roger, is one of those guys who would do anything you needed - just ask. He calls himself a handyman for the 21st century: Need a network for your home? Call Rog. Want Roger's salsa recipe? No need - he'll make his famous appetizer for you. As great as my...
When You’re Feeling Hopeless
I'm waiting for things to change. I pray and I work, but whether it's circumstances or sin, I get in a place where I'm stuck. Where I feel that things are the way they are, and they are never going to change. Maybe for you it's your marriage. Or your weight. Or that...
My Goals this Week, Tips for Achieving Your Goals #1, and Win The Me Project
Tips for Achieving Your Goals Have you ever gotten to the end of a week and thought, "I had such plans. How did this week get away from me?" Each Monday, I write out a list of goals for the week. I'll be honest - it takes some time - sometimes 15 minutes - sometimes,...
When being 40% Brave (or Qualified) is Enough
There are times when my husband can still shock me. I was reading the memoir/manifesto of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. In one of the chapters about why women try less often for management jobs than their male counterparts,...
Are You Stuck?
I've been in that place - stuck. Stuck in my relationships, stuck in my relationship with God, stuck in sticky situations, stuck in my job. Stuck. And can we just say it? Stuck sucks. Oh I would pray. I would. But the problem was I would offer up one feeble prayer...




