To the Pastor’s Wife Striving for Perfection I once had a coworker throwing some serious shade at me. She took a “helpful” tone and proceeded to correct everything about me. I told her “Weight Watcher’s isn’t working for you.” After a talk with my supervisor and then another talk with my husband when I got home and explained the whole…
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To the Pastor’s Wife Striving for Perfection
How to Talk to Your Pastor About His Child
How to Talk to Your Pastor About His Child I am the mother of four extroverts. This is amazing to me because I am not an extrovert. I’m so introverted that I don’t like calling to order pizza or placing orders at the drive-thru or making small talk with cashiers. (I’m not sure why all my examples revolve around food…)…
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How to Minister to the Woman at Church Without Her Husband
How to Minister to the Woman at Church Without Her Husband There is a growing trend within churches today that we’ve got to deal with. It affects all churches without bias – big and small, rural and urban, black and white. It crosses denominational lines. The trend I’m talking about is the married woman at church without her husband. More…
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Ten Great Gift Ideas for Your Pastor’s Wife
Ten Gifts for Pastor’s Wife It’s March here in Texas and that means that the mornings are freezing and the afternoons are sweltering. Dressing my kids in weather appropriate clothing is an impossibility, so I now just ask them if they want to be cold in the morning or hot in the afternoon. Based on their answer, I grab pants…
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How to Talk to Your Kids When Church Life is Ugly
How to Talk to Your Kids When Church Life Gets Ugly Y’all know what is so annoying? How churches are filled with sinners. I mean, I’m going there to try to learn more about God and be progressively more like Jesus and the place is crawling with people who don’t have their lives together and continue to make mistakes at…
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Why I’m Not Paying for College Tuition for My Kids
Why I’m Not Paying for College Tuition for My Kids Have you ever almost drowned? I don’t mean like you choked on a little water in the pool and thought you’d cough forever. I mean you were underwater and had given up on ever getting air in your lungs again. You were sinking and struggling to get back to the…
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To the Young Pastor’s Wife: How to Balance Ministry and Marriage
To the Young Pastor’s Wife: How to Balance Ministry and Marriage Hey, girl. I see you. You’re at your church, and you feel a little lost. Everybody loves your husband and why shouldn’t they? He’s an awesome man of God who has surrendered his life to ministry. He’s a great pastor and preacher not to mention husband, dad, mentor, friend,…
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The Busy Mom’s Guide to the Best Dresses for Church Under $30
Best Dresses for Church Can I just be honest? Sundays are rough at my house. My husband is a pastor, and so Sunday mornings are kind of a big day for him. He basically gets up, gets himself ready, and leaves. Which is totally fine, except that it leaves me with four kids to get ready and lunch to prepare…
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Creative Ways to Save Money as a Family
Creative Ways to Save Money as a Family After about six months of being married, my husband asked me, “How many kids do you want to have?” I laughed, and said, “None.” This was shocking to him because he wanted four. So we compromised and had four. Now I am a stay-at-home homeschooling mom to four kids. My life is…
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How To Get Free Clothes From ThredUp
How I Get Name Brand Clothes For Free From ThredUp.com I love shopping. Online, in-store, retail, resale, doesn’t matter. I just love shopping. But as a stay-at-home mom to four kids with a husband in full-time vocational ministry, shopping for sport isn’t a great idea. Don’t get me wrong. I love roaming around Target, buying clearanced things I don’t really need…
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Where to Get Inventory for eBay
Where to Get Inventory for eBay In our previous post, How to Make an Extra $100 a week on eBay, we gave our five tips for selling on eBay. That’s all well and good for making money on the things you’ve got laying around your house, but what about when you clear out all your extra clutter? Has that actually…
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