Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Today we’re talking about family size and family dynamics. In case you weren’t aware, between the three of us, we have 16 children. Kate raised an only child, September has 10 children, and Jamie has 5. Interestingly enough, between 1976 and 2015, families with only children like Kate’s went from 11% of Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Nothing we do is more important than prayer, and time on our knees will bear more fruit in our children’s lives than any other activity we engage in. Prayer is powerful and the sooner we learn to harness its incredible power correctly, the better. It’s the best investment we can make in Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Now that life has shifted and we are all schooling at home, let’s spend some time chatting about what we’re supposed to do and how we should begin. If you’ve never homeschooled and this is brand new overwhelming territory, never fear!! Thank goodness for Jamie Erickson and September McCarthy, two seasoned and Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher When Charles Dickens said: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” in his book, A Tale of Two Cities, he could have been talking about raising a teenager. Raising teens can be both tricky and tremendously exciting at the same time. Your teen is dealing with hormones Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Women make up half of the US workforce. Seventy percent of women in America with children under 18 work outside the home and 75% of them work full time. 40% of those are the sole breadwinner in the family. Whether you’re in the home or outside of it, raising children is work. Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher What’s the crazy dream God has dropped in your heart, the wild adventure He’s inviting you to join? What is He asking you to do that you know you couldn’t possibly do on your own? In fact, if you try to do it on your own, you’re pretty much guaranteed to fall Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher “ ‘All things are lawful for me,’ but not all things are helpful. ‘All things are lawful for me,’ but I will not be dominated by anything.” 1 Corinthians 6:12 If your child is between the ages of 6 and 23, born between 1995 and 2012, then they are part of what’s Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Proverbs 18:24 says, “A man that has friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.” Friendships are important for all of us and maybe even more so for our children as they begin to navigate growing up and start to figure out how to Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher It’s summer, school is out, and now it’s your chance, mama, to take a little “me” time. You’ve been making lunches, carpooling, driving the kids to soccer or ballet or violin lessons or whatever your children might be interested in every week for months on end so, not having to drive endlessly Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher The invitation arrives when you least expect it, folded neatly like fresh towels still warm from the dryer and it wraps, unexpectedly, around your heart. The invitation reads something like this: Dear Mom: You are cordially invited to a party. An After Party. Your children are growing up. They’re heading out of Read More …