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Several people who know details about how B arrived have made comments like, "He'll hear about this for the rest of his life - on his birthdays or when you're angry/upset at him." Although B will hear this story over and over again, and although it would be tempting to use it as leverage against …
Continue reading "What I plan to tell my son concerning his birth story"
I legally fit the title of "student" until completing graduate school this past December. From ages 4 to 25, I participated in various forms of schooling. After defending my thesis a mere four weeks before my son's due date, my husband and I celebrated me finally being finished. It felt so good. No more papers, no …
Yes, I read all those parenting books about necessary schedules and consistent atmospheres. Although I feel at least somewhat in control of B's schedule when we're home, there's simply no hope when we're traveling. It's just not the nature of our trips. I've also felt the guilt-induced panic as my child repeatedly never takes a nap in the same …
Now that you have packed without the kitchen sink and a few other items, here are some tips for the actual process en route to your destination. (This is by no means an exhaustive list...just a few things that I've learned in addition to what I normally read on blogs when I researched traveling with …
B was 5 weeks old when we made our first three-hour drive to a youth event where his Daddy led worship. At two months old, he flew to west Texas for Thanksgiving. The following months involved back-to-back Disciple-Now weekends, including a late-nighter coming home from Texarkana after midnight. We flew to South Carolina for a …
Continue reading "Travel Tips Part 1: Everything but the Kitchen Sink"
I've always traveled a lot. My parents injected in me the desire to go and I don't know if it will ever dissipate. Don't get me wrong; I'm a homebody. I love my time around our home. But I definitely enjoy a balance of each - let's go for a little while and experience unexpected, sometimes disastrous …
As a young wife and mother, I ask a lot of questions. Titus 2:3-5 talks about how the older women should teach the younger women. In one of my favorite books on this passage, Feminine Appeal, Carolyn Mahaney writes that "it is doubtful that the Apostle Paul had in mind Bible classes or seminars or books …
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