Back to school shopping can be stressful, particularly when you have picky fashion conscious teens/tweens. We managed to get our back to school clothes shopping done with very little stress by providing the boys with a budget and letting them spend it as they saw fit, provided they got the things they really needed first…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Holy Housewives- Book One Wrap-up
I apologize for the lack of posting the last few weeks {my site was hacked} but I am up and running again {except that you may still see a warning in Firefox, does not happen in IE} so I will try to sum up my final thoughts on the book today and briefly touch on…
So, what happened to homeschooling?
This summer has been a roller coaster ride of indecisiveness. Confusion. Soul-searching. Heart break. On my face before my Creator asking “why” and then remembering it is often not my place to ask. {Situations that I can’t share here that shook my faith and made my soul ache but at the same time brought my…
Protecting America’s Kids
While at the annual BlogHer conference in NYC, I had the distinct privilege of having dinner with the folks from Tavern Direct and The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. More on Tavern Direct in a second but first I want to share with you some more downright scary and eye opening statistics about…
Back to school fashion
Summer is a time for epic growth spurts {apparently}. Jared has grown an inch and a half and put on a few pounds {of all muscle, he wants you to know}. Matt has grown 3/4 inch and hasn’t put on a single pound despite eating us all under the table EVERY day! I look up…
New at Multitasking Mama’s shop!
Reasons I am opening an OpenSky shop on the blog: A lifetime pipe dream of mine has been to own a little boutique (where I would sell an eclectic blend of products that I love)…OpenSky provides the opportunity for this to become a reality right here on my little ‘ole blog. The opportunity to provide…
Open letter to family court system
This is an actual letter I wrote after an interesting and eye opening experience with one of the teen moms I mentor. Names have been left blank to protect privacy. August 13, 2010 Dear Judge ________, I had my first encounter with the family court system on August 11, 2010 when I accompanied ________ _________ to…
Time is fleeting…
I am feeling rushed. Urgency knocks on the door of my heart. Have you done enough? Have you taught them enough? Have you equipped them for this journey? A faint knock on the door of my heart beckons me away from urgency and toward comfort. I answer that familiar knock. Then I remember that all…
Legacy of Caring
I was recently in NYC for a blogging/social media conference. Johnson and Johnson was there and requested some bloggers to make videos describing something that they care about. Naturally, those living with chronic illness are frequently on my heart {although I had to quickly decide to talk about that OR foster care OR human trafficking…
Push, pull
Parenting adolescent boys is akin to playing tug of war. They want you to park as far away as possible when picking them up from basketball practice but need you to listen (and *gasp* maybe even hug them) when their team loses the tournament. One minute you are “the meanest mom ever” and the next…
