Listen to Your Mother, Y’all!

Listen to Your Mother, Y’all!

Although I eventually gave birth to four girls and four boys, my husband and I invested 10 years in this parenting gig before welcoming a daughter into our home. Our first three children were boys, which was how my husband’s family rolled: his mother and...
Tech Gifts You’ll Love {with giveaway!}

Tech Gifts You’ll Love {with giveaway!}

[Contest closed: the winner is Lesli Richards!] I love gadgets: cool, techy things that either enhance my productivity, my life, or are just plain fun. Recently I’ve tested three which now feel indispensable to me—the PUNK wireless speaker and RELAYS in-ear...
Because Christmas Isn’t About Me at (in)courage

Because Christmas Isn’t About Me at (in)courage

It’s the first week in December and I’m already prepared to fail at Christmas. I never complete a Jesse Tree devotional with the kids; I shop at the last minute; I rarely manage to open our home to others as much as planned before the chaos sets in, in the early days...
December 2014 Desktop Calendar

December 2014 Desktop Calendar

It’s currently 70 degrees at my house this first day of December, but I’m channeling Christmas cheer no matter the temperature! We decorated our trees instead of shopping on Black Friday, and I snapped a photo of this quirky red mushroom ornament from a...
When You Ask Others to Pray

When You Ask Others to Pray

She looks me in the eye and says, “Do you have a group of people praying for you?” We met this morning, my new friend and I, but already she asks hard questions. The truth is that no, I don’t have a group of people praying for me while I work on my...
The Gift of Reasonable Expectations

The Gift of Reasonable Expectations

My sister asked me to photograph her wedding just two months after I got my first DSLR. Boy, was I nervous. I carried Scott Kelby’s digital photography books in my camera bag and read them every spare moment; drove to Nashville to attend a NAPP (now KelbyOne)...

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