Why I LOVE Christmas

Unplugging from the daily routine Admiring the hills of Tennessee Seeing 60+ year old people play Wii (Hilarious!!!) The smell of dinner cooking Mama’s dressing (BEST EVER!) Mac & Cheese (don’t care who makes it… just HAVE SOME!) Sleepy time (immediately following dinner… lol) Reading the Christmas story in Luke 2 before… Opening presents one… [...]

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Birthday Bowling

Blake’s 8th birthday is coming up next week, and just like the 7 others before this one, it falls on the day after Christmas. We’re thankful that so far every year on his birthday Blake has been surrounded by family. Evie has been intentional about having a cake and letting him open presents from family! [...]

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20,000 Thank Yous

Well last week my little blog got its 20,000th hit. While I’m certain there are many other blogs that get that many hits in a day (and this guy may even get that many hits in an hour), it took me a little over a year to reach this milestone. When I started this thing [...]

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Merry Christmas!

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What’s NOT in the Bible

Just finished reading the gospel of John this week and some things really struck me. Not only things that were in there, but this time some things that were not. For example in chapter 8, when the Pharisees brought a promiscuous woman to Him, what did Jesus write in the sand? In Chapter 11, just [...]

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One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song

This is just for fun… and I had A LOT of fun watching it! Hope you do. Thanks Micah for posting it!

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The REAL Reason for Discipline

Recently I spoke at our church and shared some Biblical principles for parental discipline. The talk was mostly based on scripture, but also was laced with some great, practical insight shared by Ted Tripp in his book Shepherding a Child’s Heart. The true motive for discipline is to keep our kids in a ‘circle of [...]

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