Parenting – the hardest thing we will ever love. Nobody ever said it was easy, but everybody says it is a blessing – weariness and all.Monday’s post referred to the weariness that moms can feel as a result of child-rearing, teenage-drama, taxi-cabbing, tantrum-taming, diaper-changing, and mess-cleaning. Weariness from trying to stand firm in your convictions,…

As soon as I answered the phone, I heard the panic in her voice. My daughter, who was in the 7th grade at the time, had received permission from her teacher to call and ask if she had possibly left her brand new IPOD Touch in the car that morning. Although I knew I hadn’t noticed it, I…

It started out as a simple assignment, but turned into a life lesson. Three years ago when my son Michael was nine years old, he showed me a picture he had drawn in Sunday School. I gazed at his artwork and told him how wonderful it was, even though I was secretly  unsure what he was trying to portray. Considering the fact that…

Recently my daughter was searching for something n our attic, and came across a VHS video labeled “My First Year”, which was a recording of the entire first year of her life. My three children and I all stopped what we were doing, and for the next hour, laid on the bed watching this video,…