Jesus Didn’t Parent Toddlers: A Love Letter to the Parents of Littles
Parents of Preschoolers and Toddlers, this season is the real deal, isn’t it? You are in the t-r-e-n-c-h-e-s. When my guys were preschoolers, I had to have them out the door by 9:00am, or the house would surely crumble around us. I was sure of it, and my... “It gets better.”
“Mom, I wish you had some kind of record of the things I said when I was little.” The incredulous look on my face may have been apparent to him, and I didn’t mind. I wasn’t hiding it. “Tyler, are you kidding me right now?”...
Why I Won’t Get the Award for Mother of the Year
Throwing it back to a post from 2008,when my babies were two and almost-one, I was sleepless and underfed, Robb and I were married and sweetly naive, and I was beginning my track record of forever disqualifying myself for Mother of the Year. At least some things...
She said, “Oh, honey, I’m not going to tell you.”
This conversation happened on a Sunday morning nearly a decade ago. This couple sat near us, and I met them during the ‘meet-n-greet.’ Back then, little conversations like this one were a highlight of my morning, back in the days before I became an...
Remembering the First Ever Mother-Son Flashlight Party
I found this little ditty hiding in the archives. Look at this very sweet story. * * * Robb was traveling. Let’s start there. After dinner and playtime at Chick Fil A, showers (which are no longer baths and also new evidence God’s goodness in my life), we...Tricia on Focus on the Family
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