We've lived in tiny one bedroom apartments in South Carolina to a ranch style home in Georgia to our current home on Historic Main Street in a small town in North Carolina. All of them have been just that - home. Some days "home" looks neat and picked up while other days it looks like a lego, sword, baby doll, books and paper tornado hit our home dead center. But that's sort ... Read More »
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How the church can walk beside recovering addicts
I am learning from a new friend who is serving God by showing up weekly and walking beside women recovering from various addictions. Our conversation started with a few questions about how to help those who are struggling with drug and alcohol addictions. What started as a conversation ended in this blog post. Thank you, Sally, for writing this so that we can all have a better ... Read More »
Things I learned in November
Tonight I'm linking up with a new-to-me favorite author, Emily P. Freeman. Every month Emily encourages her readers to "look back in order to move forward". She shares what she learned in the previous month and her readers do the same thing if they choose to. This month I'm choosing to. As I awkwardly look back on a month (I'm more the lets conquer this day and look forward to ... Read More »
Belly Laughter
Usually family formed belly laughter is just that - for the family - and just like pulling out old home videos is boring to other people so are their family belly laughter stories. But one reason this blog exists is for family memory preservation so I'll share it anyways. The weekly belly laugher comes in the form of a mispronounced Science term. I'm explaining to my son how ... Read More »
Church fail – OMGosh I’m a freak!
All of last week I pretty much ate a daily dose of humble pie. It wasn't the most epic parenting week ever and I certainly didn't hold up to any pastor's wife specs and qualifications last night at the Community Thanksgiving service. Let me paint the picture: Once a year our awesome little community holds a Thanksgiving service on Sunday night. It either takes place in a ... Read More »
Homecoming Court: a platform to teach about true identity
It happens every year - homecoming court. I love it and I hate it. I hate that young girls especially tend to place so much value on a like, a share, a comment or in the case of homecoming - a vote. Each girl secretly hopes to be chosen as class representative even if she is too scared to walk the court or doesn't want to be in the spot light. She still wants to be the one ... Read More »
How we handle sales calls at dinner time – don’t hate us
Maybe you've been there before. You just finished cooking dinner and gathered the family at the table which is a feat in itself. You've prayed and now you're ready to put that hot bite of paleo cauliflower casserole (that's a joke for those who don't know me) into your mouth and the phone rings. Honestly, I'd be relieved if a phone call interrupted a bit of paleo anything but ... Read More »
Gift Ideas and a warning about barreling through leaf piles
I'm thankful for my man who keeps up our yard. We have a million leaves like everyone else right now. Where we live the city provides a sucker-upper truck that comes by and gets our leaves once a week. You don't have to bag them. Just rake them to the curb and they get them. Cool huh? Of course every now and then you get a smart-hmm-hmm who drives their car through the middle ... Read More »