Day 4 of Connecting with Your Kids Challenge (and a chance to win the book…)
Write Your Child a Note Try This: Write your kid a love note. Making the Connection Back when my kids were younger, we kept a small, lidded basket better known as the "family mailbox" in the middle of our cluttered kitchen counter. And inside it, I'd often find sticky...
Day 3 Connecting with Your Kids Challenge: Pray for Your Kids – Starting a Prayer Journal
Pray for Your Kids Try This: Start a prayer journal to help you intentionally pray for your kids. Making the Connection: A few years ago, Amanda was engaged to someone who wasn't right for her. It was obvious to Roger and me, and everything in me wanted to open my...
Brag On Your Child — According to Their Personality
Brag on Your Child According to Their Personality Try this: Tell someone else how great your kid is in a way that best suits his or her individual personality. Make the Connection: Let me just say: My son Justen is an excellent writer. Well, he is. He's great. I love...
Day 1: Connecting with Your Kids Connect with Their Personality
Day 1: Connecting with Your Kid's Personality I know my kids pretty well. I know that Kimberly could spend all day watching Gilmore girls while Justen would rather die than see one episode. I know that both of my kids are into Steampunk (which, when it comes to...
10 Things to do Now to have a Less-Stressed Thanksgiving
I know - we aren't even past Halloween yet. (I'm as bad as Target and Macy's...) But hear me out. I want you to me the least stressed hostess on the block. I want you to give thanks that a bunch of this stuff is already done. I want you to enjoy that piece of pumpkin...
If You’re Here from Time Warp Wife – Welcome! Here are a Bunch of Free Things for You (And my Old Friends as Well!)
Thanks for visiting (And even if you're not here from Time Warp Wife, there are still free goodies for you! So keep reading!) Let me give you the lay of the land. Just like at Time Warp Wife, we are all about the husband love. We show that in a variety of ways: but...
An Open Letter to my Friends who Talk Bad About Their Husbands: Why I Love You, But Can’t Hang Out with You Anymore
Dear Friend, This is really, really hard for me to do, but I have to tell you why I can't hang out with you anymore. I get that marriage is hard. I do. I've fought with my husband (remember, when we got married, we had four teenagers, so we had plenty to "discuss"...
How to be “The New Girl”
I've packed and repacked my same black suitcase about five times. Usually, packing is a snap for me (I go on about fifty trips a year, so if I don't want to dedicate a large portion of my free time to packing. a girl learns to keep it simple.) I would like to...
If You are here from MOPS – Awesome! Imperfect Moms Welcome. (And free goodies…)
Thanks for visiting me here. If you are an imperfect mom like me, you have found a home. (Or at least a place to have a lukewarm cup of coffee.) For those of us who know it's better to do things as a tribe than alone (cause what's the fun in that?) Check out my...
Why I Didn’t Feel Close to One of My Kids… And What I Did About It
I know - it's the worst thing a mom can admit (well that and admitting that sitting through hours of sporting events really isn't that fun...) but there have been times in my parenting that I didn't feel close to one of my kids. Justen is a bright, smart, funny kid...
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