A few days ago, as I was driving home, my mind drifted. In no time I was in an internal panic, thinking about what would happen to my children if my husband and I both died at the same time. Then, I let my mind go further (too far) and I imagined if we all died except my youngest daughter. Would our friends gather around her? Would our family get here quickly enough to calm her fears? I was almost in tears as I was driving, gripped by fear. Continue reading
A friend of mine recently posted on Facebook a picture of a small hand coming under the door while mom was in the bathroom. I assured my friend that this pattern doesn’t stop when they get older.
Ok, they no longer try to slide their big hands under the door. Continue reading
My kids are ages 10 to 15 now. We’ve been reading the Bible together — aloud — for the last 11 years. It occurred to me that some might ask the questions, “Why are you still reading to your kids?” Continue reading
Just before the end of the year, the kids and I finished our third reading of the Bible. Yay! It was a day of celebration; a really good day.
We were planning a trek to visit family for Christmas and New Year’s, so I decided to delay starting over again until our return.
I was also delaying because I had an idea. Continue reading
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21
After a little more than two years of reading the Bible, the children and I arrived at the book of Job. When I say that Job was difficult, that might be an understatement. Job can be a hard book for adults to sift through, but reading this book to children was especially tough. Continue reading
Here’s how my mind works. First, know this: I am not a morning person … REALLY.
But … if you tell me I’m going on vacation and I need to leave early, I can stay up ‘til midnight packing and still get up at 3:30 a.m. to get on the road. This is called MOTIVATION. Continue reading
When I began reading the Bible with my kids, it wasn’t long before I stumbled upon passages that were rather graphic in content. At first I panicked and tried to quickly come up with some way to convey the story to a preschooler, without arming them with information I was not ready for them to have. After a few of these pressure packed moments, I realized I needed a plan of attack. Continue reading
So we’re driving down the road and one of my kids asks, “Hey, mom (or dad), can we go to that park sometime?” and I say, “Yes, we can plan a day for that.” But we never seem to get around to planning that day. Continue reading
A little more on the value of reading the Bible to our little ones. Having done this in my very ordinary home, I’ve seen kids grasp — hear and understand — much more than I would have thought they could when I first started reading it out loud to them. (Again, just very simply: one chapter a day, five days a week.) Continue reading
