That three-year-old now treats me with disdain when I go to tuck him in for his nap, if I dare try to pick him up and lay him down on the bed. He throws me a saucy look, grabs big handfuls of the comforter and pulls with all of his might to get on the…
It’s time for all of the “I’m gonna’s.” This year I’m gonna lose 20 pounds. This year I’m gonna work out six days a week. This year I’m gonna drink less soda. But have you ever, at the beginning of a fresh new year, resolved to change your language around something instead of your behavior? …
I was sanding plantar warts off of the bottom of my feet with a pumice stone just now. Covering them with duct tape for a few weeks got rid of them for months of pain-free walking. But they just started to return, so I’m back in the rotation of covering them for the night with…
Matthew brought home a new phrase a while back, from old Scotland. “Hurkle durkle,” he said. “It means to lie in bed, without guilt, long past time to get up.” This has now become a common expression in our home. It didn’t help when I put a new cozy blanket on the bed. It is…
My little grandsons were restless, but it was bitter cold outside, so I took them to the crawlspace for entertainment. We go there often. Those little boys love nothing better than going to a secret cave under the house with flashlights to explore. I sat down on a Rubbermaid and let them look for treasures….
My mother-in-law had her pacemaker replaced recently, and I accompanied her to her followup visit. She sat down in the chair, and the doctor stood at the counter with her hands over the computer keyboard. “I’m going to slow down your heart a little bit, so you might feel a little lightheaded,” she said. What…
At the beginning of the year, I started telling the Lord that I really needed a better paying job to survive inflation. The part-time, entry level job I was in just wasn’t cutting it anymore. On the side, in March I became a certified Dave Ramsey financial coach and then spent months and hundreds of…
We have a flip calendar at work with Bible verses on it, and yesterday I turned the page to a treasure. Let’s stop here and talk about our desperate need for encouragement. A couple of weeks ago, Matt took our truck into the shop and got a call saying we needed a $14,000 repair. In…
Dear friends, you are looking at a brand new certified Dave Ramsey Coach! Confetti, please. My favorite hobby is being in school, if you want to stop for a moment and have sympathy for my poor husband. In our bathroom is a little stand holding a stack of sign language flashcards my mom gave me…
I can’t believe they’re bringing Extreme Makeover: Home Edition back to TV. It’s satisfying to see a family’s crumbling, sad home transformed, in a matter of days, into all that they had hoped and needed. That brings me to my great cookbook project as I enter the new year. Let me introduce you to my…
I went to the doctor for an annual physical a few weeks ago and faced the scale, the blood pressure cuff, the stethoscope and the blood draw. Those measuring instruments did not care what my January 2024 resolutions were. They only assessed the reality of how I had been living all year. “On a scale…
His brother was carefully lining up dominoes in a straight line on the floor, and this two-year-old little man wanted to do exactly the same thing, except his dimpled fingers weren’t able to pull off the same precision. I could see his frustration growing, until finally he pushed the dominoes away, screamed, and stood up….
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