15 Unexpected Benefits of Big Family Living
I love children and have wanted a bunch of them for as long as I can remember. Not surprisingly, this fact significantly narrowed the field of potential marriage partners back…
Motherhood
Pray for Your Children from Head to Toe
After I published my popular “Praying for Your Husband from Head to Toe” printable, several readers requested a similar prayer guide for wives. I made one, and my husband published…
A Mother’s Job Description
It’s really something we all should be doing. But when I came across this verse in my Bible reading a couple of weeks ago, it dawned on me that 1…
A Letter to My Father
Tomorrow marks the seventh anniversary of my father’s passing. I remember dreaming that Daddy died several years before he actually did. The dream came long before the cancer diagnosis, before…
Then Comes Baby in a Baby Carriage
Peter DeVries once said, “The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.” I think both processes are important, but have nonetheless found his…
A Hero in the Making: Like Father, Like Son
When my husband and I first married, we had more time than money, so much of our gift-giving consisted of poems and short stories we wrote for one another. I…