Chip’s Picks: Graduation Gift Ideas If you search Amazon for “graduation gift,” you will get 20 pages of keychains, cheesy books, jewelry, and knick knacks like this graduation angel. This post, Chip’s Picks: Graduation Gift Ideas, contains affiliate links for your convenience. This means that if you click on a link and make a purchase, we’ll receive compensation at no…
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Kindergarten Redshirting “Make sure to have your children in the fall because everything in life will be easier for them if they have fall birthdays.” This nugget of wisdom was bestowed upon me when I was seventeen years old. At the time, it seemed completely irrelevant since I was still in high school, unmarried, and not looking to have kids…
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Why I Don’t Care If My Kids Are Bored I invited a friend to a social gathering recently, and when I told her the location and venue she said she won’t have fun if her kids are bored. I was shocked. This post, Why I Don’t Care if My Kids Are Bored, contains affiliate links for your convenience. This means…
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The Best Mother’s Day Gifts on Amazon Amazon has about a billion different items for sale. This is a bit of a nightmare for me. I like to weigh my options very carefully before making a decision. This post, The Best Mother’s Day Gifts on Amazon, contains affiliate links for your convenience. This means that if you click on a…
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When I was seven months pregnant with our fourth child, our third child was only 18 months old and still wasn’t consistently sleeping through the night. This sleep deprivation coupled with some general life stress and a discovery of a love of iced mocha frappachinos led my husband, Chip, to begin buying a coffee every afternoon. He’d be at his…
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It’s 11:00 in the morning, and I feel super guilty. All I’ve gotten done since dropping my kids off at Parent’s Day Out almost two hours ago is a 30 minute jog and a shower. As I sit here looking around my living room, there are no less than twelve loads of clean laundry that need to be folded. The…
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In America, seven people die in house fires every day. Seven people every day. This is an incredibly frightening statistic to me because home fires are often completely unpreventable. There are some things we can do to help prevent them like emptying lint screens and cleaning off cook tops, but I am not an electrician or mechanically inclined at all. I would…
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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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