When our oldest entered middle school, our church decided to host a youth group in our church basement, after a few years of not having an organized youth group. The group was open to all middle school kids in our church and in the neighborhood....
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It was January of 1994, and there was an ice storm in Chicago. I had flown in from Southern California where I attended college after learning my mother, at the age of 47, had died of breast cancer. I was still a teenager, making my way to...
Summer is here, and it's zooming by!
If that statement puts you in a panic, then this is for you. Why the panic? What was on your summer agenda that you have not yet attended to? Better question, why the agenda in the first place?
Before our kids were born, we bought our first home in Sacramento, CA. It was a brand new starter home, in a new development, across the street from a newly built, beautiful elementary school. "Perfect!" we thought. We would be able to take our...
Questions during dinner, you ask? Who's got time for family dinners? A task more doable when you have younger children. As our children grow older, homework, sports practice, extra hours at the office, social lives, and many other things battle for...
You just climbed a flight of stairs with an armload of laundry. You knock on your 12 year old daughter's bedroom door. She shouts, "Mom, don't come in!" Your suspicions rise, not to mention the laundry you are holding is about to tumble onto the...