Category: Inspiration and Joy

  • SOAP: A love tsunami

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    Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3:12 And may the Lord make your love grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love overflows toward you. Observation: With God’s guidance, your love can grow to immeasurable qualities that you can share with all around you. Application: I want to be a love tsunami.…

  • Our family is about to grow…

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    No, stop. I am not pregnant (at least I don’t think I am). We are simply planning to open our home to a Danish teenager we have known for quite some time later this summer. Her dad and my husband were soccer teammates in high school before her dad fell madly in love with a…

  • Adjusting to motherhood was a challenge for me at first

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    I am sorry this post is late. I had promised it by Friday… but motherhood and real life must have got in the way. And I have to be okay with that… Becoming a mom for the first time was not the most natural thing for me. Well, okay so BECOMING a mom was natural, but…

  • Mother’s Day reading… Mars Needs Moms!

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    This weekend I was away from my family. While I was gone, my husband picked up a Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County, Opus) book at Walgreens called Mars Needs Moms. My first grader just read it to me and it was pretty cute. Apparently, there aren’t any moms on Mars, so a few Martians try to…

  • My mom’s first time mom story…

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    I asked my mom to write about her experience as a first time mom for my first-time mom story round up and giveaway.  (If you haven’t linked up, please do.) Here’s what she had to say… Some things are expected and some catch you by surprise Some things are expected and some catch you by…