Pin It Guest post from Tauna: I am (ahem...) housekeeping challenged. I need a simple and easy-to-remember routine to keep my house from going to pot. • Menu Planning Monday: Plan week's menus and do a grocery run • Toilet Tuesday: Thorough cleaning of bathrooms • Wipe Down Wednesday: ...
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When Rules Don’t Apply To Your Child
It's been a long time since I updated you about Bubs (age 8). But, I don't want to delay any longer. The last time that I posted, we had just learned about Bubs' severe language delays. We were waiting to begin therapy and I was trying to make sense of it all. Fast forward a month, Bubs is attending speech therapy once a week while we wait for ...
Guest Post: Creating Routines? Follow Your Husband’s Lead
Pin It Guest post from Tauna: We've been talking a lot about creating routines and schedules in our home. When done well and catered to our family's needs, priorities, and style, they are invaluable tools. One thing I've learned through all the iterations of schedules we've worked in our family is that I must follow my husband's lead. For ...
Review: She’s Got Issues
Pin It Ever been surrounded by a group of women who made you feel very put together? Their lives were in such shambles that you praised God that you weren't like them. Or what about the opposite, a group of ladies who all wore the June Cleaver facade? On the outside looking in, everything was perfect? Then there are those rare ...
Guest Post: Being Like Jesus When Your Day Falls Apart
Pin It Guest post from Tauna: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control; against such things there is no law." ~ Galatians 5:22-23 A few months ago I was having a particularly hard mommy day. OK, week. Maybe month. I emailed a good friend of mine asking for prayer. She's ...
I Don’t Have to Stress Because….
Pin It Friends, I have been under spiritual attack. Attack towards me as a wife, as a mother, and as the fingers behind ABCJLM. It has been mounting for a few weeks but it finally hit the top on Friday. Other than days in which I have been overcome with extreme grief, Friday was the worse non-grief day I have ever had. My attitude was ...
Newsflash: God Has Asked Me to Do Something I Can't Do
Pin It According to my Advanced Comp teacher, I can't do it. According to the worlds standards, I can't do it. And, I agree. I can't write. The paper above looks clean compared to assignments that I turned it. I was sure that my teachers used entire red pens on just my essays. Fast forward fifteen ...
Children Who Interrupt
Pin It Look at the couple above. This picture puts a smile on my face...and a little jealousy in my heart. They look so relaxed and appear to really enjoy each others company. They are having quality conversation and no interruption. Sounds marvelous, doesn't it? In the last few weeks we have talked at great length about the importance ...
Guest Post: Routines and Schedules for a Family
Pin It Guest post from Tauna: Our family has been going through a time of re-thinking, prioritizing, and simplifying. We are now a family of 6 with one on the way. One day, as I was relating to my husband some struggles I have been going through with the kids and some "big feelings" I was having, he gently suggested we take a good look at ...
You Are Being Watched!!
Pin It God is showing my husband and I - in so many ways - the importance of how we act while our children are around. Because, we all know that values are caught and not as much taught. While reading during my quiet time, I found these verses in I Timothy 4: 11 Teach these things and insist that everyone learn them. 12 Don’t let ...