Four Tips on Making the Bible a Priority for Your Children

Faith

Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Talk! For the next few weeks, in honor of schooling starting back up, I’ll be sharing some tips – no matter if you are home schooling, public schooling, or private schooling! Four Tips for Making the Bible a Priority for Your Children During the School Year: In our home, school is important. The year my oldest learned to read I felt the pressure. I spent the entire year patiently teaching him the letters, sounds, and blends. The phonics…

Longing for Paris Launch Day!

Faith

I’m sharing over on Instagram a special Longing for Paris giveaway….. I’m giving away a copy of Sarah Mae’s book, Longing for Paris and some other goodies!   This book is about longings and the deep places of our hearts that ache for something more, something we can’t even always explain. It is about figuring out what do with our dreams and our longings, and how we navigate the tensions between them and our reality. In Longing for Paris, Sarah Mae…

5 Steps to Finding (and Keeping) Friendships

Faith, Friendship, Motherhood

Being a mom sometimes means you give up some things.  Taking showers. Putting on real clothes. Make-up.  Some days it just doesn’t happen.  It might be 2:00 before I hop into the steamy quiet.  As mothers, we give up fitting into those jeans from college. We forgo reading a good book.  Our neat and tidy house is long gone.  One thing that should not be abandoned when you become a mother is friendships. We all know we need community. Let’s be honest….

Since I Was a Little Girl

Faith

As a young girl I read all of the Anne Frankish books in our library. I started journaling at age thirteen.  When I moved out of my parent’s house at twenty-two I took with me an Avon box full of 70-page lined spiral notebooks. I suppose there were over twenty notebooks filled with the thoughts and dreams of my girlhood. I still have them now. One of those dreams was to write a book. Most of the time, when I was dreaming…