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Jennie Chancey | April 1, 2011
Amy over at Humble Musings has had marvelous posts over the years. This one she put up yesterday is just an example of her straightforward, biblical thinking and loving application of God’s Word. Beautiful. Ah, realistic expectations. Pesky little things. When I floated an idea to my husband yesterday, which may or may not have [...]
Tanya Duarte | March 21, 2011
Only ten years ago I would have thought the magazine Crowned With Silver was “behind the time” and “too old-fashioned” for my tastes. Now, however, I find it a source of nurturing to my God-given feminine role as wife and mother! When I married my husband 12 years ago, I had no idea what marriage [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 7, 2011
Jasmine Baucham posted a wonderful piece over on Raising Homemakers: Because the way I’ve ordered my life is counter-intuitive to most Americans, those days when I’m tired, overwhelmed, or even a tad bit frustrated seem almost to condemn me. Why is that so? Why, if I was pulling a full course load at Columbia while [...]
Amy R | February 18, 2011
It seems utterly impossible. For 15 years I have shared my life, my bed, my world with an amazing man. And while he is still “just a man,” I often wonder how people can walk away from marriage after so many years of sharing their lives in such an intimate way. When Jenny mentioned seeing [...]
sarahelisabeth | January 31, 2011
We’ve had three generations of us living in the same house for three and a half years now. The adjustment, to what was once the norm, hasn’t always been easy, but we can see clear benefits for all of us. Our children are used to having an older person around and don’t think older people [...]
Diane Shiffer | January 31, 2011
Really, there’s nothing quite like it… After vainly combing the catalogs and internet looking for a plus-size lambswool fair isle cardigan in shades of gray and red (just looking you understand; just wasting time wishing and window shopping, a’course.) After weeks of that, there’s nothing quite like having your daughter set out to the Goodwill [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 9, 2010
From Mariette over at Mercatornet: Sorry, I cannot divulge the cost or any statistics behind this headline, because I just made it up. But someone ought to write that story. After all, reports about the (insert fear-mongering adverb of choice here) high cost of parenthood are so numerous, frequent and ubiquitous, that they would be [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 25, 2010
My dear friend Kelly over at Generation Cedar wrote a wonderful post about gratitude yesterday, and her words spurred me to reflect on my own lack of thankfulness: “I wake up every day with a simple choice to make….give back my life in thankfulness, or with complaining take.”
Meredith | November 22, 2010
Since I am approaching my “graduation” from stay-at-home daughterhood, as I will move on to my new career description as a stay-at-home wife in just a few months, I thought it would be beneficial to reflect on these past four years. The choice to live at home with one’s parents instead of going away to college or [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 2, 2010
From Crystal over at MoneySavingMom.com — one of the best posts we’ve ever read on being REALISTIC about how much we can do. Thank you, Crystal! In the past year, I’ve received numerous emails from women begging me for my “secrets” to time management. They ask me to please share how I manage to seemingly [...]
Tiana Krenz | October 7, 2010
“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young.” Isaiah 40:11 I have to admit, these words didn’t mean that much to me when I was a college girl singing the piece from [...]
Mrs. Marino | October 7, 2010
After my tubal ligation, and experiencing profound sadness for having a procedure that took my fertility away, I began studying the history behind the birth control movement. I found that the seeds of birth control were rooted in the soil of feminism. I also found that birth control was a stepping stone to abortion. Birth control had [...]
Luci | September 5, 2010
November 2008 was not the best month for me. As the days grew shorter, I grew increasingly dejected. Toward the end of the month, I was diagnosed with a condition that would make conceiving a child incredibly difficult. I faced the prospect of at least two major surgeries to fix what was wrong. In spite [...]
Jennifer McBride | August 25, 2010
Here’s a must read for all my fellow (often weary) mothers out there I had an experience that moved me a few years ago, though. It was an evening I spent bathing my children that very literally revolutionized my perspective on mothering. Longing to tell you all about it, I shared a similar version of [...]
Diane Shiffer | July 16, 2010
So, early yesterday morning, while most of the neighborhood was still abed, the boy next door headed out to work. He was sleepy and nervous about his new job and not used to the blind spot in his just acquired Blazer and… well… this was the result. The front quarter of the aforementioned Blazer looks [...]
