What the World Needs Now Is…a Porta Potty?
If you’re a Facebook friend of mine, you’ve heard all about the Porta Potty in my driveway. We’ve been having some work done on our house, so they moved it in about a month ago. My friends gave me lots of fun suggestions about how to decorate it for...
Call Me Morticia, But I Think I’ve Discovered a Dark Secret to Happiness!
Lately I’ve been feeling a bit down in the dumps. If you’re my Facebook friend, you may attribute this to the lovely porta potty in my driveway or the mud pit state of my front yard since the deluge of rain began a few days ago or the fact that a team of...
When Church Makes Us Cry
Sometimes church makes us cry. It did for Sadie (not her real name) on Sunday. The kids had finished their doughnuts and fellowship time when it happened (which means they had played air hockey and drew with markers and looked at books and begged me at least thirteen...
Anger, Out of the Closet
Last Sunday morning, I stood in my closet and got mad at my clothes. It was going to be a busy morning and I had a ton of things to keep track of. In a few hours I’d be standing before our large congregation, handing out acolyte crosses to our new fourth grade...
Are You Avoiding Something? Five Tips for Doing the Hard Thing from a Team of Experts I Know
Kids can be masters at avoiding things. If you have children, this will not be a surprise to you. Unless you have a rare bird child, whose keeps his plumage preened perfectly, who puts on her bird pants before breakfast without spending fifteen minutes making trick...Get Becky’s New Book
