How to Help a Mom with a New Baby When our first daughter was born we were living eight hours away from my family, my husband was in seminary, and we were both working full-time jobs. We were in the process of renovating our home, and I was about to make a career change. To say that it was…
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I love adoption. I love everything about it. I love the joy of finding a forever home for parentless children. I love the excitement of a family bringing in a new member. I love hearing adoption stories. I love that adoption is the best physical representation of what God did for us by making us His children. This article was…
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Can I just be honest for a moment? Sometimes, being a pastor’s wife sucks. Most of the time, I love it. Truly. There are so many amazing things I get to be a part of that have a lasting eternal impact. I get to teach scripture, I get to counsel people through problems, and a thousand other things. One…
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My friend, Terri, has talked for years about “seasons of life.” She uses this phrase when describing a particularly difficult time that her family is going through – the sleepless nights of having a newborn, the stress of living three hours away from her husband while waiting for their house to sell, homeschooling her rambunctious second grader with a toddler…
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4 Ways to Help Kids Sit Through Church When our second child was three, he had to start going to “big church” because that was the nursery’s policy. If this had been our first born, there would be no story to tell except that she sat quietly and did exactly as I asked. But this was Dax. Our feisty, spirited,…
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10 Ways to Help a New Pastor Feel Welcome Getting a new pastor is an exciting time in a church. Often times, people want to help and don’t know how. We live in the South and people are very polite – almost to the point of hindering sincere interactions. Here is how a typical conversation goes after a move:…
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While talking to a group of ladies at my church a few months ago, a woman was telling a story about the last time she worked as a labor a delivery nurse. She begins to describe the laboring mother she was caring for, but first, turns to me and says, “No offense Halee.” She then continues the description of…
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Parenting is HARD. Anyone who says differently is a liar. You are given the biggest, most important job of your life with no specific instructions or user manual or anything. And heaven help you if you try to Google the best way to parent. There are so many different styles of parenting – authoritative, permissive, authoritarian, attachment, free range, slow,…
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My daughter bought an iPod with her birthday money, and it is killing my son. He started by asking for an iPad, then a Kindle Fire, then any tablet, then an iPod, and then a laptop. Then he started asking for “any device.” After telling him that, at five years of age, he is too young for electronics he began asking…
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7 Easy Ways to Earn Extra Money for Christmas Despite my love for organization, I am almost always late, and my husband is no better. To give you an example, we were both late for our own wedding. As a result, our children are also almost, always late. Related: I’m Late Because You Aren’t My Priority I say this so…
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What’s scarier than a little girl dressed up as a witch? A callow fear monger dressed up as a Christian.
