Extended Family
As it turns out, Uncle Ed Sheeran and Auntie Taylor Swift only feel like family, but they have a powerful influence over our growing children, much more so than the family we only get to see and visit at holidays.
Parenting
Summer at the Pool: Remembering our Baptisms
When the pool opens for the season, my kids want to be there.
Co-Parenting Communication
We are aware that our experience of co-parenting does not reflect that of other people in a broken relationship.
When Hope is a Discipline, Everything Changes
We started to hear rumblings of a teachers’ strike just a couple of days before it happened.
Remembering Goliath
One night in May several years ago, my five-year-old made a declaration while we were eating dinner. “Mom,” he said, “on Monday, we need to read the story of David and Goliath.” I
When the Stakes Seem High
When our oldest child transitioned to middle school three years ago, it was the height of the pandemic. Decisions were made for us, not by us.
Summer Reading: Why to pick this battle and some recommendations
In our house, it’s not often our boys pick up books unless it’s a last resort. But we keep giving them books.
Monica/Monnica, Woman of Prayer
If you are a western Christian, Saint Monica might be the second most famous Christian mother you can name, after Our Lady.
Growing Christians
In the work of raising two children to live their lives as followers of Jesus, we have entered the important albeit irritating phase of teen angst, rejection, and challenge.
