Category: Home and Family

  • Mom’sToolbox Advent Activity: December 5

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    Up until Christmas, I will be sharing one Advent Activity per day for moms and families. (If you aren’t a mom, don’t worry. Many of the more mom-like activities can easily be adapted for anyone.) I hope you will try out and enjoy these little gifts for your family from me. It is my prayer…

  • Mom’sToolbox Advent Activity: December 4

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    Up until Christmas, I will be sharing one Advent Activity per day for moms and families. (If you aren’t a mom, don’t worry. Many of the more mom-like activities can easily be adapted for anyone.) I hope you will try out and enjoy these little gifts for your family from me. It is my prayer…

  • Mom’sToolbox Advent Activity: December 3

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    Up until Christmas, I will be sharing one Advent Activity per day for moms and families. (If you aren’t a mom, don’t worry. Many of the more mom-like activities can easily be adapted for anyone.) I hope you will try out and enjoy these little gifts for your family from me. It is my prayer…

  • Mom’sToolbox Advent Activity: December 2

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    Up until Christmas, I will be sharing one Advent Activity per day for moms and families. (If you aren’t a mom, don’t worry. Many of the more mom-like activities can easily be adapted for anyone.) I hope you will try out and enjoy these little gifts for your family from me. It is my prayer…

  • Mom’s Toolbox Advent Activity: December 1

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    Up until Christmas, I will be sharing one Advent Activity per day for moms and families. (If you aren’t a mom, don’t worry. Many of the more mom-like activities can easily be adapted for anyone.) I hope you will try out and enjoy these little gifts for your family from me. It is my prayer…

  • Christmas planning time is here!

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    Are you a Christmas planner type or do you like to wing it? I am moving into major Christmas planning mode this week and couldn’t be more excited. I’m thrilled to be visiting extended family for Thanksgiving and, this year, I will be bringing Santa’s sleigh with me and sharing gifts one month early there…

  • Real (Experienced) Mom Judy Douglass

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    I love the way the internet can bring people together. Not too long ago I was tweeting about my love of Global Media Outreach, when my tweet was retweeted and a relationship was born between two previous strangers. I have never met Judy in person (although, interestingly, we do know and cherish several of the…

  • Meet Cindy, a Real (Experienced) Mom who encourages us to pray

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    And she and her husband are a Bible in 90 Days graduates, too! I am thrilled to share Cindy’s story with you. Not only is it amazing and filled with wisdom on its own, but I told Cindy I wouldn’t post it until she finished reading the entire Bible. This post is a celebration of…

  • How do your towels get folded?

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    My husband doesn’t fold the towels the same way that I do. This troubled me for years. I appreciated that he was helping, but I was always re-folding so that the towels would stack perfectly in the cabinets. Never mind that other clutter was taking over my house, those towel cabinets needed to be straight!…

  • Text Google for directory assistance information

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    I used to be pretty regular user of directory assistance from my cellular phone. (I know, I know… I can almost hear all you frugal bloggers out there gasping.) But now I am a changed woman. I have finally put into practice something that the twenty-something girl at the cell-phone store taught me long before…

  • Why host a foreign exchange student?

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    Sure there are lots of really good, respectable reasons to host a foreign exchange student. Today, though, I have a few others… An extra child in the family means an extra birthday party and birthday cake. (Ya gotta celebrate her birthday, too!) It will definitely motivate you to clear out that extra bedroom that has…

  • How do you celebrate birthdays?

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    Today is our German daughter’s Sweet Sixteenth birthday. Back in Germany, she would be celebrating with her brother who shares her birthday, and also with so many in her family who have birthdays in September.  It sounds like her family’s September is quite a month! She told me that at home the whole family, except…

  • Preparing for a cross-cultural experience

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    As you read this, it is quite possible I am at the airport with my family, armed with chocolate chip cookies, greeting and welcoming the newest member of our family. You  might have already read a bit about us hosting another foreign exchange student this year and we are all quite excited to meet her.…

  • Meet Jill, our latest Real (Experienced) Mom

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    I am always touched by the stories from the women who so honestly open up their hearts to share their true stories with us on Real (Experienced) Moms. Jill’s story is no exception. Unfortunately Jill didn’t have a relationship with her own mom to model with her children. But I think her trust in the…

  • Using a shared journal to open teen communication

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    I have not been a parent of a teen for long and, unlike most parents, I didn’t get to  make way into it day by day. It happened in just one day. And it is about to happen again. You see, my husband and I were foreign exchange parents last year and are about to…