Family Movie Nights with Orville Redenbacher’s New Pop-Up Bowls

Family Movie Nights with Orville Redenbacher’s New Pop-Up Bowls

My family loves movies. Movie nights—whether family events or mom/dad dates—are a weekly fixture in our home. It’s a given on Fridays. As I tell my husband, it’s part of my contract. Popcorn is an indispensable component, a conditioned response:...
Facing Fiona

Facing Fiona

She crawls into bed with me this morning, carrying a small toy, and a two-year-old wound reopens, fresh. “Guess where I got my doll?” she asks. It’s been some time since I’ve seen it, and I don’t want to look at it, talk about it now. I...
31 Days of Encouragement: Grace for Living {Day 24}

31 Days of Encouragement: Grace for Living {Day 24}

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. ~2 Peter 3:18 Each day she scratches a blue line through another day on the list, waiting for 6 weeks to pass, for the moment when the earrings...
Why I’d Rather Be a Southerner When It Snows

Why I’d Rather Be a Southerner When It Snows

Southerners have a (deserved) reputation for not knowing how to drive in the snow. We get made fun of, especially in places like here in Atlanta where there are lots of Northern transplants; even my kids are doing it, and they’re Southern born and bred....
iHeartFaces: Smile

iHeartFaces: Smile

This week’s theme at iHeartFaces is “Smile.” These are my three youngest daughters, laughing and being silly. It brings me a little bit of sunshine and summer in midst of this week’s cold and snow.
31 Days of Encouragement: Hospitality {Day 6}

31 Days of Encouragement: Hospitality {Day 6}

Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ~1 Peter 4:9-10 Hospitality is an area where I struggle. An “everything has to be...

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