a letter to moms with young children
Dear mom of little ones, My daughter woke me up last night. Well, actually it was this morning. The glaring red of the digital clock claimed it was 4:20. I believed it. She’s almost nine. Years, that is. Not months. She knocked on the bedroom door and drew me out...
hot chocolate in june :: a review
I must say, it really feels like this year, the Lord is bringing the exact books into my life that I need to read. I review books for Ambassador International, and when I received the monthly e-mail advertising which new books were available for review, I gave the...
guest post by lisa-jo baker, author of surprised by motherhood
It is my great honor to host Lisa-Jo Baker on the blog today, author of the memoir, Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected about Being a Mom. I had the privilege of writing for Lisa-Jo on her blog in the lead-up to her book launch, telling everybody...
holy holes – revisited
I had forgotten about this post that I wrote over a year ago, until someone found it on my blog by searching Google for 'purposeful holes in socks.' 😉 Reading it again was like glimpsing through a window into my soul, and it was refreshing to realize how the...
the definition of a friend
They are the ones who show up on moving day, scrubbing toilets in the dingy rental that doesn't even belong to them. They are the ones who say they will pray ... and actually do. The ones who bring you food when you break your foot and when you have a cold and when...
the pros and cons of cross-cultural living
I was recently asked to share some thoughts with a college group about what it’s like to live in a cross-cultural setting. So far I’ve had the privilege of visiting Mexico, Honduras, India and Lesotho before spending a decade living in Cape Town, South Africa....
the easter donkey – a review
The Easter Donkey is a lovely children's book written by Donna Thornton, illustrated by Lynne Pryor, and published by Ambassador International. It's a story about a donkey named Drupelet who gets chosen to play a role in a reenactment of Palm Sunday, then...
celebrating the release of a promise in pieces
Today I'm celebrating with Emily Wierenga on the release of her new novel, A Promise in Pieces. I had the privilege of reading an advance copy of this book, and it is delightful. While Emily has written several non-fiction books, this is her first published...
remember when – a memoir for my daughter
It's Memoir Monday, and this week I'm changing things up a bit. Instead of writing about a memoir of my own, today I'm writing to my daughter in hopes that one day she will look back and this memoir will be hers: Remember that time when you were eight years old...
paint
We semi-circle the supplies around us at the table -- newspaper, paper towel, the empty, rinsed out salsa jar filled with clean water. Brushes, white paper. We are going to paint. And they start out doing their own thing, and then their eyes wander over to my...
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