My oldest son, about five years old at the time, ran towards me wild-eyed and screaming. “Mommy! Mommy!!! Help me!” Twenty yards or so spanned the distance between us, but it felt like two thousand yards. I stretched out my arms to him and he collapsed into them, sobbing. “He was hitting me, Mommy! And [...]
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No matter how you look at it, homemaking is not easy. In many respects, it’s just plain hard. While it also brings great joy and satisfaction, for many of us, the difficulty transcends the emotional challenges homemakers face. It moves beyond balancing the many aspects of homemaking {and living them out well} and enters the [...]
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Today we have a special guest post from Susie Shock of Our Simple Farm… “Why did you do that? You ruined it! How could you do something so careless?” Have you ever been there with your [...]
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Have you ever been perplexed about your friendships with boys? Have you ever wondered how to handle a crush or unrequited love as you try to wait for God’s best? Should guys and girls even be friends? As girls desiring to become godly women, we want our interaction with young men to be God-honoring and [...]
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When my first daughter was born, she had an older brother and that was our family for nearly 4 years. I was so excited to have my little girl {and my little boy}, but little did I know how much influence her older brother would wield over her. When she was a mere 3 years [...]
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Even when our own don’t exist, we young women like to talk about our future marriage, home, and children, don’t we? Simply put, we were made for that kind of life. And occasionally you might hear us ask each other with a hardly-suppressed grin, “So, if you were married tomorrow and had a home of [...]
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The further I travel on this parenting path the more I realize my inadequacy. I can plan and schedule, I can train them and teach them everything that I know about homemaking. I can have the God-given goal of training these girls in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. I can do this with [...]
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Homemaking is serious business, you know. And amid all of the serious points of focus, over which we exercise the limited control we have, groping and grasping for things that only God can see the other end of, we must endeavor for a truly significant, but frequently overlooked aspect of homemaking: making our family feel [...]
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