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Jennie Chancey | July 30, 2011
I’ve just gotten the photos from our friend in Alabama who helped pull off this huge surprise for the Crawford and Lee ladies–the families who lost everything in the tornadoes that tore through Alabama in April. Once again, a huge, huge thank-you to everyone who sent physical donations. Such an abundance of sewing notions, fabrics, [...]
Jennifer McBride | July 28, 2011
Today Kim Brenneman, author of the wonderfully helpful book Large Family Logistics is answering questions from readers on five different blogs! Click here to head over to Life in a Shoe to get started reading and for the links to the other blogs. Also, until August 4th you can use promo code 4MOMS at Vision [...]
Tiana Krenz | July 28, 2011
From Yahoo: What’s the matter with kids today and why doesn’t anyone want them around? In June, Malaysia Airlines banned babies from many of their first class cabins, prompting other major airlines to consider similar policies.” Babies. As Christians, we believe God when He tells us that babies are a blessing. http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-no-kids-allowed-movement-is-spreading-2516110 Stacy McDonald of Your Sacred [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 28, 2011
From Mariette Ulrich at Mercatornet: When it comes to fashion advice, it seems the young are leading the way. The study of more than 300 mothers and daughters found that adolescent girls have a powerful influence on the make-up, clothes and hairstyles chosen by their mothers…. The desire to look one’s best isn’t new or [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 22, 2011
From Mercatornet: You might think from the millions of words spilled on the subject lately that the worst thing to have happened to British society in the past 50 years is the News of the World phone hacking scandal. It’s not. A more serious contender is divorce, according to a senior family court judge. Sir [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 22, 2011
From the Philippines: Saying that the reproductive health (RH) bill can erode one’s dignity as a person, a student of the University of the Philippines said youths need self-control, not birth control. “The youth are in danger of thinking that contraceptives will protect us from different STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), when the only real solution [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 20, 2011
Laura Wood over at The Thinking Housewife has an excellent two-part series up right now to answer some fundamental questions about feminism: Reading your blog makes me wonder. If older generations were happy with the traditional role of women in society, why was feminism embraced by the later generation? Maybe you think it was propaganda, [...]
Kristen Sosebee | July 20, 2011
Sweat soaks through my t-shirt and workout shorts. I chug some more water and realize I should probably shower before my husband comes home from work. But what to pull out of the closet to wear? Maternity yoga pants and a baggy shirt are always a comfortable stay-at-home choice, I’m thinking. Then my hand passes [...]
Tiana Krenz | July 20, 2011
Sometimes, I feel as though I have mommy-ADHD. More often than not, I don’t get the satisfaction of starting a project and carrying it out to completion without being interrupted. Instead, I spend much of my day using “little minutes”…putting out little fires…attempting to keep the various balls I’m juggling from crashing to the ground. I change [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 20, 2011
This is an excellent commentary by Denise J. Hunnell over on Mercatornet. So much of the howling coming from the left about de-funding Planned Parenthood centers around the notion that women have a “right” to contraceptives as a normal part of health care. That argument simply does not hold water. In a July 18 New [...]
Jennifer McBride | July 20, 2011
From Jess Clark at Moral Outcry. “About our security measures,” says the preschool director, “We have a couple of airtight ways of keeping the kids safe and in the building. One: we have locks on the doors. Two: we have security cameras and staff keeping an eye on the parking lot. Those 2 measures almost [...]
Jennifer McBride | July 19, 2011
Christian wives everywhere have a burning desire to live for our Lord. Many though, are overwhelmed and discouraged. Knowing that this is not what the Lord has for His children, they search for encouragement in their highest calling, that of being a wife and mother. More often than not their search is in vain. The [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 18, 2011
I got a few quickie photos taken by a friend back in Alabama and hope to post a full report with more pictures soon, but I wanted to get this up now so you could see a preview of the thrilling day!
Jennifer McBride | July 17, 2011
“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 15, 2011
Kim Coghlan of Life in a Shoe has posted some wonderful articles that I wanted to pass along: Life with Littles – “I’ve often been asked how I got through each day back when we had lots of little ones and no older children to help out. I have written about those bygone years before, [...]
