About this time last year I wrote raw words about what it’s like having 10 children with the possibility of more. You made it close to your favorite post, …

Fertility is a tricky thing…most consider it a private issue with little consequence except how it will affect their family vacations. Unless you encounter a family with more than three …

I am going through a growing time, to put it mildly, where the Lord has used several circumstances in my life to bring me to the end of myself, which, …

As happens every time the public is shocked with news, a vicious manhunt begins for the reasons “why” or “how” this could happen. It’s no different with the Josh Duggar …

For a number of reasons (including an on-going 3-week sickness) I don’t even have the energy to write about this heart-wrenching situation right now. But if you’re like me, you’re …

Parenting is hard. And if you’re like me, the longer you’re a parent, the more you realize you don’t know what you’re doing. Because every child, every temperament and every …

None of us would say that we believe our best gifts and energies and talents are better expended to strangers than to our own families. But we do believe that, …

I’m reading a book now that you’ll be hearing much more about in the coming days, because simply put, it’s one of the best, most rejuvenating things I’ve read in …

When I wrote Why Your Children Annoy You & Homemaking is Boring, it really resonated with you all. It was about how luring the Internet can be, and how boring …

There’s a national uproar over the recently released video about Planned Parenthood’s selling of body parts from aborted babies. Of course PP contends they haven’t broken the law (they claim …

When my daughter got married, we used two large, canvas curtains for decoration. The cheapest solution was a painter’s drop cloth. (Harbor Freight (on line) was the cheapest place I found them, …

A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. “She’s worked all her life making me happy”, he …

  It doesn’t occur to you, until your first child gets married, that the years of mother work–nursing, staying up with fevers, changing diapers, teaching letters, adoring those chubby little cheeks–both …

I have dreaded publishing this post, and I have prayed heavily over it, begging the Lord to use it to challenge and move hearts. Public school is perhaps, the most …