If you haven’t entered the drawing yet for a copy of Cecil Murphey’s book Unleash the Writer Within, do so here! Nothing draws a crowd of neighbor kids like a giant tub of bubbles. Well, with the exception of juggling fire, but that’s a story for another day. I grew up in a family filled […]
motherhood
For the unsure mothers
**You have one day left to enter to win a copy of Cindy Bultema’s story “He Loves Me.” Enter here! I wasn’t sure about this mothering gig. I wasn’t the girl who dreamed of being a mom and had all my kids’ names picked out. I liked babies…in other people’s arms. Kids were fun… for […]
Staying Steady: Housework
I never struggled with housework until I had kids. As someone once told me, “It’s not that I mind doing housework. I just mind doing it over, and over, and over, and over….” Housework is one of the most challenging jobs for me because the sense of completion lasts for such a short length of […]
Asking for help
I’d much rather give help than ask for it. I suppose it’s part pride, part not wanting to be a burden or a bother. Yesterday morning I had a mini-meltdown. I was overwhelmed with my book project, laundry, dishes, and a five-year-old who does not go to school everyday and especially misses his sister on […]
Unlikely Motherhood
I confess, I was never the girl who dreamed about having babies. I didn’t have names picked out when I was a twelve, nor did I imagine a day I’d have a houseful of kids. I wasn’t around many babies in my childhood, and I didn’t babysit much in adolescence. The rare times I did […]
Memory Verses A-Z
It’s hard to believe that 2011 is nearly over. For me, it was a year of taking big steps forward in fulfilling some writing dreams. God met me in some exciting ways, and one of those meetings occurred this past summer when I met my new friend Cindy at the Speak Up with Confidence Seminar […]