It’s countdown in the GreenHouse until school begins. Two days! Through the years I’ve developed a few strategies for the last stretch. These hints just might help you hold on to the little bit of sanity remaining as you trudge for the finish line. 1. Meet your kids’...
This month our four kids are spread across four continents. That means I say lots of goodbyes. My favorite thing about saying goodbye is the opportunity to give my kids a blessing—probably their most embarrassing part. Before we had our first child, my husband and I...
“A family that plays together stays together.” I thought of that last week when I looked out the kitchen window and saw our boat leaving the neighborhood behind someone else’s truck. I heard the squeak· squeak·squeak that she always makes when she bounces...
What will you accomplish today? Yesterday I didn’t check anything off of my “to-do” list. In fact, I didn’t even have a “to-do” list. I didn’t have the satisfying feeling from getting anything done, because I didn’t. I didn’t meet with a student, wash and fold any...
It doesn’t take Mother’s Day weekend to remind me of Mom. Anything from a simple flower, a great meal or an elephant’s rear-end give me warm thoughts of her. I thought I’d share this list that my sister and I wrote two years ago for a friend to...
Every Thursday at 11:00 a.m., I met with a group of six girls who were students at Abilene Christian University. We talked, prayed and read scripture together as they navigated college life. I got to know them little by little as we shared stories. Our prayers and...
