I’m linking up today with my great friends at Tuesdays On The Run! You really must head over to the link-up and check out all the bloggers with all the words. They are remarkable humans. Recently, I got a Fit Bit. I anxiously watched all the fun data that came in – I celebrated every […]
Exciting Things I Learned this Past Week
This has been a great and challenging week and I learned A TON. Ready? Here we go: Don’t eat sweet potatoes with brown spots on them. Even if you cut off the brown spots, the sweet potato may have harmful bacteria that will give you food poisoning. (this article, #8). You should wait 48 hours […]
5 Life Hacks For Parents of Twins
I clearly remember the exact moment when we found out God had blessed us with not one daughter, as I was sure I was carrying, but rather 2 identical boys. I was 20 weeks pregnant at the time and truly could not have been more shocked. Considering we already had a 3 year old son […]
10 Lessons For My Sons as You Become Men
As the mother of 3 young men, I take the responsibility of ushering them into productive adulthood extremely seriously. They were given to us by God to mold and to raise up in the way in which they should go, and we have done everything we can to prepare them for the world that lies […]
For All Of Us That Used To Be In Ministry
Over the years I think I’ve met at least 100 people, if not more, that could say “I used to be in ministry.” And before you say it, I know. Yes, we are ALL in ministry. It’s part of who we are as Christians. Our life is our mission . . . .etc, etc, etc. […]
BIG Changes – To My Job and For The Blog
This week is pretty monumental for me. I have stepped down from my full time management position to a part time one with far less responsibility. Which means a few things: More time for my kids. Yes, they are teenagers, but anyone who has teenagers gets this: they require MORE emotional energy than ever before. […]
I Am Not In Good Shape Right Now – Half Marathon Training Begins
(no pictures in today’s post. I’m finding myself not posting because I can’t find good pictures to go with what I want to write about and that’s dumb so if you have to see pictures in posts you can skip today). Today, on my 3 mile run (that, according to my training plan was supposed […]
New Shoes, New Motivation, New Start – Running and Depression
I got new running shoes yesterday. And they are wonderful. While I was being fit, Megan (my new running friend and friendly local running store employee) and I were chatting about cycles, good ones and bad ones, and how running is the key that keeps all the awesomeness going. Here’s the cycle: I stop […]
On National Holidays and Hot Dogs and Teenagers
I’m trying to think how to start this story. I work. A lot. And I have teenagers. Three of them. And it’s summer. So the teenagers are sleeping a lot and doing a whole lot of nothing (a variety of church camps and vacations and summer school meant jobs wouldn’t work). So I work a […]