“God paint trees, Mommy.”
My two-year-old beams up at me, pointing a chubby finger at the thick trees shading our front lawn.
Her word choice surprises a laugh out of me. “You know what? You’re right! God did paint those trees.”
I swirl the word paint around inside, exploring the delightful ...
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20 Things that Do Not Go Together in the Parent-Kid Universe
I usually write lists of 13, but when it comes to the parent-kid universe, there are sooooo many things that don't go together—eventually I had to make myself stop at 20.
Motherhood and white pants.
A wad of toilet paper and the washing machine.
Carpet and Play-Doh Kool-aid milk ...
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Teaching Kids to Be Good Listeners
I recently did a fun devotion time with some children at church, about the importance of listening, and I thought I'd pass it along.
We centered the discussion and activities around James 1:19:
"Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry." We started by ...
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Childhood’s a Blur…and So Are the Pictures
We didn’t do the last day of school right.
All six of us woke up late—we had already started easing into slack summer bedtimes a few days early, and we all slept in.
So the last morning of school turned into a whirlwind of cereal-shoveling and lunch-packing and gift-wrapping, all to a frantic ...
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