4 Reasons Every Pastor’s Wife Needs Church Friends We were invited to a surprise party for one of our church members a couple of weeks ago. So we went. We drove an hour and a half with our four kids to a lake house in the middle of nowhere to celebrate one of our church friends. We spent gas money…
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3 Ways Leaders Can Help to Make Church Attendance a Habit If you’re a pastor’s wife, then you know that Sundays are hard. And if you’re a pastor’s wife and Sundays aren’t hard, please send me an email at hello@fishbowlfamily.com and tell me your secret. Because Sundays are rough at my house. There’s no amount of preparation I can do…
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Amazon Prime Day Deals for Christians If you are anything like me, shopping on Amazon is just part of life. They have great deals and free shipping, so it often makes more sense to order what my family needs and wait two days rather than go to Walmart to hunt for what we need. But it makes even more sense…
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To the Introverted Pastor’s Wife: How to Rock Your Role I recently learned that I am an extroverted introvert. Which really explains so much about me. I consider myself an introvert because I find social interaction kind of exhausting, BUT I’m pretty good at it. I’ve especially gotten good at being social at church which is important since I’m the…
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7 Books to Foster Ingenuity in Kids I have ingenious kids. Last week, my oldest son (8) tried to make his own candle using the wax from a Babybell cheese snack. He peeled the wax off his cheese, ate the cheese, and then molded the wax wrapper into a little mountain shaped blob with a tiny twig in the middle…
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What to Do When You Feel Unappreciated as a Pastor’s Wife If you’ve been a pastor’s wife for very long, chances are you’ve experienced some degree of feeling unappreciated in your role. Being a pastor’s wife is tricky because there are no actual specific qualifications for being a pastor’s wife in the Bible. So the majority of what is expected…
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Five Personal Money Rules for Pastors My husband, who works as a senior pastor, drove a Land Rover for years. He only stopped driving it because it was totaled in a wreck, and not a week goes by that he doesn’t say, “Man, I miss my Land Rover.” Now, this Land Rover was 12 years old and not a Range…
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The Experience Conference: A Pastor’s Wife’s Honest Opinion If your pastor husband is anything like my pastor husband, he doesn’t actually like to be out of the pulpit on Sundays. As a person who was always quick to use up ALL of my vacation and sick days, this concept was really weird to me. But now, after doing ministry together…
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How to Not Be Bitter in Bi-Vocational Ministry When my husband, Chip, graduated from seminary, we had been living in Tennessee for four years. We are from the same small town in Northeast Texas, and I desperately wanted to go home. In the time that we’d been living out of state, we’d had two babies, earned two Master’s degrees,…
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When Frugality is Bad for Your Heart Is frugality always good? My immediate answer was, “YES!!” said with a super annoyed tone so that it sounded like it needed the word, “duh.” at the end. But what about when frugality isn’t good? What about when frugality is actually BAD?!?! That can happen!?!? Read on friend. Read on. Jesus talked about…
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Five Resources to Grow Your Child’s Relationship With God The tagline for this blog should really be “parenting is hard” because I say it so often. But if you’ve been a parent for more than five minutes, you know that I’m right. Parenting is hard. There are a million different ways to do things and there’s no guarantee that the…
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