What are you for?

I’m sitting here listening (online) to Brian Houston from Hillsong Australia preach at Christ Fellowship in Florida and he said something that profoundly struck me:
“Live you’re life according to what you’re for, not what you’re against”
You see so many people protesting and complaining and rallying these days against something, that it’s easy to focus on [...]

Global Forgiveness Day: August 27

Click HERE to read my post on Jackie Kendall’s latest book, Free Yourself to Love, and to let today be the beginning of a life of forgiveness!

Parenting in HD

During last week’s sermon at our home church in Florida, Christ Fellowship, Pastor Tom Mullins shared some great, practical and godly words on parenting.
I love sharing great resources, so if you’d like to listen to the entire sermon, you can click HERE. Otherwise, just take a quick look at the following outline and maybe one of the [...]

Free Chick fil A Sandwich

Hurry and be one of the first 250,000 fans to sign up and get a FREE Chicken sandwich from Chick fil A (I had a lot of trouble earlier today, but I was finally able to get through! You’ll also be entered in a giveaway for a $50 Chick fil A gift card.

Rock Star & Music Man

We got to try out one of our friend’s church with them this morning since Ricky worked last night (so I could go to the Women’s Retreat at FBC during the day!) and we decided to have breakfast at Cracker Barrel (thanks to a gift card from the Irvines when we were in Florida!); it’s one [...]

Kids’ Internal Alarm

Why is it that I’ve had such a hard time waking my kids up at 7am all week for school, but the first weekend they (and my husband!) can sleep in, they’re up at 6:30? Figures.
Oh well, I’m off to my Women’s Retreat at Fellowship Bible Church with Carol Kent and Nicol Sponberg -oops, I [...]

Some of it was delicious…

In an effort to improve our budget and our health, I’ve been cutting back on meat in our dinner dishes.
Tonight I cooked a vegetable feta tart, cucumber-tomato salad, sauteed potatoes with onions and french bread. I always put a little bit of everything I make on the kids plates for them to try, even if [...]

My brain is tired

After an impromptu decision to make Italian Sausage over lentils and rice for dinner tonight (since I got all the components for free AND scored a Publix Penny Item as a result), I was so proud that my entire family ate ALL the components, even my pickiest of preschoolers!
After she asked to be excused, we [...]

Moments uncaptured

Some of the best moments with my kids happen when a camera is never nearby.
For example, when my son runs to me from another room exclaiming, “mama, mama!!!!
or when he tried a piece of chocolate chip banana bread this morning that we’d received as a gift and he said (very emphatically, mind you), “OH….MY….WORD! That [...]

What are you doing for the next 20 years?

Our first child started Kindergarten today.
I have to admit that I was much more excited than emotional. However, on our way to school, I looked at my husband and said, “Our life will not be the same for the next 20 years!”
Not that we were jet-setting to Paris on the weekends as it was, but [...]