I was dropping Molly off at school one day last year. Normally, the principal would be out front, opening car doors and greeting children as they entered the building. This day, however, a woman I had seen around but didn’t know was the welcoming committee.
When I asked Molly who she was, she couldn’t give me a name, but she did offer a job description.
“I think she helps people who are having trouble,” she said.
Several months ago, Randy began the time-consuming task of transferring many years’ worth of home videos to our desktop computer so he can later burn them to DVDs. There was no quick way to do this. Every minute of every tape had to be played on the camcorder so it …
I don’t have much to say about the Song of the Month for August other than this. If you’re shakily poised on the cusp of something new, if the way ahead is murky, if the unknown looms large, if you know what you’re supposed to do but lack the confidence to plow ahead, “Frontiers” by …
I started blogging when my daughters were well past their preschool years and I don’t often write about parenting subjects. While I am a mom who blogs, I’ve never considered myself to be a “mommy blogger.” After last week’s post about what I wish someone would have said to me …
A few weeks ago, while searching on my computer for something I wrote several years ago, I ran across a file from August 2008 titled “What I Wish.” I don’t recall every detail from when my children were small, but I clearly remember writing this piece. Lilly had just started …
Earlier this year, I led a women’s study at my church about how God uses the hard things in our lives to make us more useful. Although we covered a broad range of topics over the course of 10 weeks, one that stands out for me was the session about the …