I have always had a heart for children. Children without loving families. Children with special needs. When I first started blogging I discovered the website, Reece’s Rainbow. This is a ministry serving the needs of children around the world with Down Syndrome and other special needs, helping them find their forever families. While it was…
Tag Archive: family
Teens and Respect
Thank you all so much for the discussion that we had on last week’s topic. This week I wanted to focus on respect. Sunday I picked up the latest issue of Home Life magazine at church (shameless self promotion, I am quoted on page 54). I also picked up the February issue and it had…
Suffer the little children…
As most of you know I have a passion for parentless children. Whether that be orphans in Haiti or foster children here in the United States, I believe in the promise of Psalm 68:6 where the Bible says: God sets the lonely in families… I love that verse. If you want to be further inspired…
Understanding Tweens…is it possible?
Image by hyperboreal via Flickr I am an all or nothing kind of gal. The upside: I am fiercely loyal, totally committed and extremely stubborn determined. The downside: I am extremely determined stubborn, a tad perfectionistic and a smidge moody I was on the downside of my personality lately. Parenting 12 and 13 year olds…
Monday Mingle
I love participating in the Monday Mingle, hosted by Speedy at Eighty MPH Mom. You get to know other bloggers, see their sweet faces and interact through another medium (other than our standard font LOL) This week the questions were: If you could be any literary/movie character who would you be? What is your biggest…
Expect the Unexpected
Today for Thankful Thursday, our host Lynne chose the theme of being thankful for the unexpected. Ha! That could be the theme of my life so I decided to do a little time line post of how God took the unexpected (to me, not to Him) and worked it for good in my life. Time…
Tale of Two Houses
There once was a girl with a house: It’s time to move, agreed her spouse. So, they packed up their things, tried not to cling and prepared to create a new adventure. The ugly border must go Hard work and time will show That this house can be home It matters not where you roam…
Invisible Tuesday
Some of you know that I host a MomTV show on Wednesdays (at 1pm EST) called The Invisibles. The show focuses on living well with chronic/invisible illness. To help my listeners and to educate my readers, I am going to start posting on the same topic that my show will focus on each week on…
Somebody to love me….
Wondering if you are worth anything to anyone… Wondering if anyone cares about your future…. Wondering if this is what the rest of your life will look like… Wondering if there is a point to even trying to do your best because no one is there to notice…. I will never forget the year+ that…
Blog Hop- Favorite Picture
As if I could have just one….so my favorite one today is…. Our most recent family picture (2009). I looooove my guys Thanks for stopping by! ***</p><img src=”http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyBlogHop.jpg” alt=”MckLinky Blog Hop” width=”300″ height=”98″ border=”0″ longdesc=”http://www.brentriggs.com” /><p><a href=”http://www.mcklinky.com/basic_list_blog_hop.asp?id=377″>Click here</a> to enter your link in the blog hop and view the entire list of entered links…</p>
