Parenting is hard work, amen? It’s both hard work and heart work. It’s long days, short days, good days and bad days. I’ve been mom-ing for over 22 years now. Through many stages and phases, I can tell you one thing for sure: God loves mothers. He loves mamas because He created them. He loves…
Parenting is 24/7 365 days a year. Day and night, weekday and weekend. Meals and laundry. Schedules and appointments. Routines and exceptions. School and church. You get it. I get it. We all get it. The Mom life can be exhausting! Right? As mom to the Wojo tribe, I’ve walked through many stages of motherhood…
Dear Son, When I was your age, I wondered if I would ever have a family of my own. I pondered what my husband would look like and how many babies I’d have. Whether they would be boys or girls. What color hair and eyes they would have. Who would you look like? What would…
As a child, I remember singing old hymns at church and sometimes the words seemed a little confusing. For example, I wondered why bringing in the cheese was so important that we would rejoice over it (from the words to “Bringing in the Sheaves”) and if the person who wrote “I Surrender All” had trouble…
Did you ever try to run away as a kid? I did-once! It was a chilly fall afternoon when I was in the third grade. My older sister had a huge fifth grade project that took a lot of my parents’ attention so I was feeling a bit overlooked. My not-so-brilliant third grade logic told…
As parents, we know that in order to accomplish family goals, we need a plan. We plan meals, events, the daily schedule, and more. With the crazy pace of family life, including meeting the basic physical needs of our children, our spiritual intentionality can slide to the back burner. We really want to read and…