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High Tea
Today while visiting at my parent’s house, the girls in the family had a special treat. My niece had planned a tea party complete with china cups and saucers, cucumber sandwiches, and scones. We had so much fun and enjoyed the company of each other. I am sure we did not meet the specifications for…
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Be My Vision
Several years ago, I worked full-time as an assistant for a local optometrist. I learned many things, but one of the most interesting was a fact about children’s vision. Although my own childhood was full of eye doctor visits, glasses, and therapy for my eyesight, this was something I never had never known. Because children…
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Treasures
Have you ever found something that you haven’t seen for a while? Maybe an old family photograph or a piece of jewelry you thought was long gone? Yesterday as Bekah and I were straightening her room and doing some cleaning out, we moved several books. They had gotten piled by the bed over several weeks…
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Hold Me
Some days are just plain rough. Some times they are rough even when discipline is not needed and attitudes are good. Because life in general is just rough some days. Injuries, hurt feelings, disappointments, losses. Questions like, ”Don’t they like me any more?”, while tears are falling stop us in our tracks. All I want…
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Freedom in Obedience
One of the child-rearing challenges we have been facing in the last year or so is repeated offenses. All the discipline does not seem to stick. Who am I kidding? They do not stick. At all. The same issues come up over and over again, and I find myself asking, ”Why do you not listen?”…
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Taste and See
Most nights at the dinner table, if we have any semblance of a full meal (in other words, something besides pizza or cereal), the meal becomes a battle of wills. Will Rebekah eat her food, or will we end up giving her a spanking for disobeying us? There is nothing wrong with her food; in…
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Keep Walking…Keep Going
Distractions must be high on God’s list for me recently. It occurred to me as I sat down to write this post that we just discussed this a few days ago, but I pray it will encourage you as it did me. Three-year-olds get distracted. Easily. Rebekah even more than normal. At least it feels…
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Remove the Distractions
A few years ago, my place of employment implemented a new reporting tool. It wreaked havoc on our teams and was the cause of much distress. It did, however, show our managers that some employees were not using their time wisely. It made us all a nervous wreck, even though my job was getting completed.…
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Be Still
If I said it once, I had said it a hundred times: “Rebekah, be still and go to sleep!” At almost 18 months old, she was going through one of the most painful mysteries of toddlerhood: the appearance of eye teeth. It made her normally stubborn and willful temperament seem like a beautiful dream. As…
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Life Lessons from a 3-Year-Old
Over the last three, almost four, years now, God has made it increasingly clear that He has many lessons to teach me. He has such a sense of humor, taking something (or someone) I desired so greatly and using it (or them) to show me how He wants to work in my life. Certainly, I…
Encouragement, Bible study, life lessons, and a bit of this and that – learning the truths of God’s Word and trusting Him who is the only Truth
