Category: Home and Family

  • Day 19: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

    Wow! Christmas is almost here! Today is my kiddos’ last day of school until 2009. Here’s your assignment for Day 19: Pray for your children’s teachers and school administration. (If that is you, then pray for your teaching and your role as your child’s teacher.)   Enjoy…  See you tomorrow.

  • Day 18: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

    Wow! We are one week away! Here’s your assignment for Day 18: Pray for a person with whom you have a strained relationship.   Hope you find this prayer time enlightening…  See you tomorrow.

  • Day 17: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

    Hope you’ve been enjoying this season of advent. Here’s your assignment for Day 17: Get ready for Christmas part 3: Ask your kids what they would like to do over the school break. Make a point to do at least one realistic request.   Enjoy planning some fun…  See you tomorrow.

  • NPR’s Holiday Reading List

    Since I now so often have little ears in the car with me, I don’t get to listen to NPR in the mornings or evenings as I did in my pre-mom days. Tonight my husband came home and asked me to listen to a beautiful story that aired today on NPR about a family who sets…

  • Day 12: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

    Hope you’ve been enjoying this season of advent. Here’s your assignment for Day 12: Pray for your immediate family… as a group and as individuals.   Enjoy sharing God’s love again…  See you tomorrow. PS You might consider rounding up some apple cider and cinnamon sticks for tomorrow.