Gather at the table sharing meals with family – How I Mom 8/30
Gather at the table. With your family. With your extended family. With your friends. With just you and your kids. With just you and your spouse. . In whatever form, fancy or ordinary, every day, in the real space of your real home in your real neighborhood, gather...
Prayer — Like Breathing~ How I Mom
My overarching umbrella of How I Mom is hands down. PRAYER. Pray like your family, your kids, your world depends upon it. Because it does. I am so desperate for God in my life and I want my kids to know it. Pray like breathing. When my children were still in their...
Be your kids’ number one cheerleader – How I Mom 7/30
How I Mom 7/30 "Be your kids' number one cheerleader" When one of my now-college aged twins was on the seventh grade basketball team for his Middle School, I was at an appointment before his game and was running late. He texted me moments before the game was to start...
Fostering lifelong sibling relationships of unconditional love – How I Mom 5/30
I so love how my Sunshine Wildflower Girl reaches out to all of her younger brothers. She has lived away basically since she was 18 when she left for Bible school in Germany and was married at age 22. She continued living in Germany finishing her bachelors and masters...
Talk about Your Faith — How I Mom 4/30
I did not grow up going to church with my family. When we lived in Corvallis, Oregon during my first through third grade years, I had two best friends: Jeanie and Julie. Jeanie went to church with her family while Julie and I did not. So on Sunday mornings, I got...
Invite your kids’ friends over – How I Mom 3/30
3/30 How I mom: Invite your kids’ friends over when they are young and when they are older. Make it easy for your kids’ friends to come over. Just invite. And make it easy for them to say yes. This year's Halloween is the first time in over 25 years that I didn't have...
Make grandparents and extended family a part of your family life – How I Mom 2/30
2/30 How I Mom: While your kids are growing up, make grandparents and great grandparents and extended family part of your lives. - - - - - - - - When my husband and I were first married, his folks had...
How I mom — 30 November Days of Navigating the Adventure Motherhood
When they placed my first-born child, my only daughter, into my arms, 28 and three quarters of a year ago, tears fell from my eyes as I looked into her deep dark eyes. I felt so much adoration and love toward her that it felt like my heart was going to burst. I...
Kids should be seen — and heard.
While my husband and I were catching up with our friend Dirk at church last weekend, our 15-year-old son Gus was speaking to a gentleman who was seated one row behind us in the sanctuary. The gentleman had initiated a conversation with Gus, asking him questions about...
A week at Harvester Island is first step in detuning, paying attention, and finding our stories
Just before climbing on that floatplane in Kodiak Alaska, I called my husband and daughter and texted my boys. I reached my husband but couldn’t get ahold of other kids at that exact moment. I then asked someone to take a photo of those of us about to board...
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