Beginning next week, I will be starting a new study! With ideas and plans for training our families, yes FAMILIES, not just kiddos! 🙂 The study will be based on “Achieving True Success:  How to Build Character as a Family“. We are working through this book in our home and…
Family
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To Think…..Before We Speak
I can’t wrap my head around things being said and done, not only in my family, but society too. So often we think AFTER we speak! You’d think (lol) that after the first or second time we regret doing so, we’d stop. Yet, we don’t. Maybe for a…
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Talkin’ the Talk vs. Walkin’ the Walk
As I’ve said many times, I write what God lays on my heart. I change things here as God directs me to. I am not here for me or to share what I want to. This corner of the blog world is the Lord’s. He will grow it in His…
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Trying Thursday
Trying……lately I find myself trying with many things; some things for the first time, others with a new method. I wonder what I’m not trying at, that I should be. Trying to be a better mom, as God calls me to be……….check Trying to become the wife He created me…
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Training Thursday….
Since Tuesday, I have been thinking about how I view teaching vs. training. Teaching reminds me of school ~ one person instructing another ~ helping and encouraging when difficulties arise. Training I picture ~ pushups, running ~ always being driven to push yourself harder and more than ever before ~…
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Trying Thursday…..
If you’ve read my Mission Statement, Dreams & Goals you’ll know that I want SHH to be a place where no masks are worn and all are loved. If you haven’t read it, you can find it here. Today I’m being honest, no masks 😉 This week has been…
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Trying Thursday…..
“No, I won’t go!” “I want that toy ~ I’m not leaving until I get it!” Have you heard these statements before? What happens when you refuse to give in? Enter now ~ crying, whining, screaming, laying on the floor, kicking….sigh…..the “joys” of a temper tantrum. My children both went…
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Trying Thursday….Refreshment….
At the end of a long, hard day there’s nothing like the sound of a running stream, or crashing waves upon the sand. What is it about water? The sound is so…..refreshing……the taste is the same…….refreshing…. Jesus offers us living water (John 4:10). He IS the living water. If the…
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Trying Thursday….
Last night I was busy working throughout the house…Making granola bars, doing laundry, doing dishes, folding socks, etc….Bedtime is BY FAR the most trying part of our days. I wanted to enjoy my busy time, (I love to be in the kitchen) and not worry about the kiddos chatting, etc.…