I fight it when I’m driving down the road in a car full of kids. I fight it when I am making dinner with my teenage daughters by my side. I fight it when I’m sitting in the quiet living room late at night with my husband and my 17 year old. It is...
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I got an email today from a reader who was feeling weary and battle-worn by her kids’ attitudes and their constant bickering. She asked me for ways to encourage kids towards right. I thought her question was an excellent one– believe me, as a mom of 10, I really understand that battle-weary feeling. Here...
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My mother was a health nut. She made granola, bought raw milk from the farm, made bread and yogurt, snuck wheat germ into all sorts of things, fed us liver, and only bought ‘healthy’ cereal like raisin bran and grape-nuts. She made cookies occasionally, but there was never coke or koolaid in the house,...
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All I know is I’m not home yet This is not where I belong Take this world and give me Jesus This is not where I belong
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The other day on Pinterest I saw a toddler’s t-shirt proclaiming, “I am why we can’t have nice things.” As a mom of ten, I’ve experienced enough kid-related breakage to laugh and nod and appreciate the morsel of truth in the shirt. But when I got to thinking about the attitude behind the shirt,...
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Today we are up to our elbows in Concord grapes, making grape juice some of which will eventually be turned into jelly. I thought I’d share my grape jelly video from a couple years ago in case anyone else would like to know how to make jelly.
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Something about coming back from a trip (and maybe from a good visit with a sister) leaves me all revved up, appreciating my kids more and freshly determined to be that good momma, the one who smiles and sings and keeps her perspective and is not so easily frayed around the edges. So this...
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Gracie took such a long nap on Sunday that I didn’t end up raking in the orchard, and the only orchard pictures I got were actually of Rebekah and Ken and Gracie. But you can see the orchard in the background in some of these photos. Here also are a few pictures that I...
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A few months ago I entered a giveaway for a pair of tickets to a Women of Faith conference anywhere in the US. I was surprised to actually win, and quickly hatched up a scheme to combine the conference with a visit to my sister Bekah who lives near Sacramento. When our husbands both...
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