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This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Contribute some food you love to a food pantry. Lynn’s post on food donations really hit me where I needed to be jostled, and now I am sure to only give food we love. Bring your neighbor’s trash cans up to the house after the trash service. [...]

Do you want to use your blog to reach out for the Lord? Are you already doing that and want to connect with others who are, too? If so, come see me at the 2:1 Conference this April 27-29 near Washington, DC. The conference has been created to equip homeschool families, and, although I do [...]

This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Give four compliments today: two to people you know, two to people you don’t know. Let someone else go first… in the check-out line, in a doorway, down the parking lot aisle (and risk giving up a better spot) Write a thank you note to a store [...]

That was my view last Wednesday as I was wheeled to pre-op before I spent 3 hours in surgery having 2 liters drained from a mystery cyst on my liver. I had my thank you note and tape and a box of doughnuts to share. And I had my brave face on. I’ll back up [...]

This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Plan a family act of kindness to do at some point over the next 4 weeks. Make sandwiches and deliver them to homeless people. Volunteer for an afternoon in a food pantry. Join in on a service project your church is doing. Write the date on your [...]

I hope you are having a lot of fun with Operation Intentional #Kindness. I’ve noticed that not only have I been more intenional in showing kindness, but I’ve also appreciated it even more when others have shown me kindness, too, in both big and little ways. Last week a gentleman stood in the rain to [...]

Thank you so much for your prayers about my appointment with the surgeon yesterday. I was reassured by him that the cyst is most likely benign and I am scheduled for surgery next week to get it out. (Yippeee!!) I’ll likely stay just one night in the hospital, but there is a possibility of two. [...]

Want to help me spread more joy and kindness this year? Random acts of kindness are awesome, but what if we could be intentional about these acts of kindness, and not let a week (or day) go by when we didn’t share some joy with those around us with kind gestures? Robyn, a friend of [...]

Looking for a godly woman to mentor you and don’t know where to start? You aren’t alone! Gina over at Keepin’ It Real offers some practical advice on finding guidance and seeking out that Titus 2 woman…  

Today I’m over at Tommy Nelson kids, sharing a few thoughts on Advent. Here’s a preview of what I have to share: Wow! Another year has flown by and us here we are again, preparing to celebrate the birth of our Savior. In my house that means coordinating lots of dates on the calendar for [...]

See that? That’s my new in real life friend, Liz, and me. Yesterday I had the chance to meet one of my amazing readers who is also a Bible in 90 Days grad! I was thrilled enough to met Liz in person, but she also invited me to talk about Bible study for busy moms [...]

November always brings talk of thankfulness. Today on Tommy Nelson’s Raising Faithful Kids I’m sharing how I have been doing my best to teach my kids about thankfulness this month. Click on over and see what I’ve been up to. My kids are enjoying it. I’ve been smiling a a lot and I bet you’ll [...]

Each month I have the privilege of writing for Tommy Nelson as a contributor to the Raising Faithful Kids blog. In October I shared a bit about how my husband and I modify to parent each of our children… Parenting is always changing. As I’ve said many before, often it feels like once I get [...]

After 20 years away from Tae Kwon Do, I’m back! And I’ve got the board breaking video to prove it: My boys have been in Tae Kwon Do for a few months and watching them really made me a bit envious and homesick for the fun and challenge I felt in Tae Kwon Do in [...]

When you look like this: people have a lot of advice for you. (And yes, by the way, that is me, very pregnant, as a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding a few years ago. My husband suggested we make curtains from the dress because there was so much fabric. Nice.) This weekend someone asked me [...]

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