My younger son has a speech delay, my older son a speech disorder that requires frequent and intensive speech therapy to learn to speak. He didn’t say his first word until he was three. Devastated by the lack of conversations I got to have with my children, one day I turned to Scripture. Surely there was a passage or verse…
Essential oils are the oils extracted from plant parts (flowers, bark, leaves, etc) used for aromatic or even medical purposes. Each oil has different benefits for our physical and emotional health. There are so many testimonies of people experiencing positive changes to their health or their children’s health after using a particular essential oil that I just had to give…
In 2017 I wrote a whopping 14 posts until mid-November. Yep. I had these lofty goals of writing a post a week, but it obviously didn’t happen. Life is busy, I had other blog tasks to work on, and I’m also trying to finish up my book I hope to self-publish in 2018 (yipppeee!) and well, you know how it…
If you’re a mom raising a child (or children) with special needs, you know the ache, the loneliness, the worry and fear that can become consuming if you let it. I’m a reader. Love reading. And so I’m in my happy place when I stumble across a book that can encourage or enlighten me on this special needs parenting journey. Disclosure:…
We all do it. We compare ourselves to others. We view something someone has or does as better than us. And we feel jealous and insecure. But then we compare ourselves to someone else and we find we’re better at something than them, and so we judge them and feel better about ourselves. We’re continually trying to keep the scale…
You love God with all your heart and soul and mind, and then life happens. Whether it’s the busyness of life, or something painful happened in your life, it’s not hard to find yourself not connecting with God like you did before. God feels far away, and your desire to read your Bible or pray or go to church is…
On Thanksgiving we sit around a table with family and friends, eat way too much delicious food, and think about all the blessings in our lives. It’s honestly one of my favorite holidays, because we slow down enough to truly enjoy what’s around us, to recognize all the good things in our lives. And then we wake up the next day,…
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I just love the opportunity to gather with family and reflect on all the things we are grateful for, realize how blessed we truly are, all while eating some amazing food. “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV Although I don’t…
So, I watched this video on FB the other day. Please take a few minutes to watch it before reading the rest of the post. It’s worth it! Didja watch it? Ok, good. So anyway, I watched this video on Facebook, and scrolled through the comments. All the comments on that video were all about persistence, not giving up, the…
I took my boys to a huge mall about 40 minutes away on a hot summer day. A chance to get out of the house and kill a few hours with shopping and playing in the play area. We went into every store that would excite a four and seven-year-old. The Disney and Lego Stores. The bookstore. The carousel in…