Let’s be honest with one another for a moment. Do you have a plan for building your children’s character? I’m serious… do you?! Personally, I consider myself fortunate when my children go to bed well fed, bathed and without having thrown >5 tantrums in a day.  Now being intentional in building character in my children? [...]

→ read more

Meal preparation once was and can still be a nemesis for me: selecting the right balance of nutrition, preparing the meal and expecting my two daughters now 4 and 5 years old will value my efforts and the nourishment to their bodies. My first born rejected eating at three weeks old. Doctors diagnosed her with [...]

→ read more

Join us this month as we give you little snippets of insight from Dr. Kimmel’s book Connecting Church and Home, which is ready for purchase! Order your copy today! Download a FREE Sample Chapter!

→ read more

And no, that was not a good thing….   Kristina, our second born was healthy, smart, helpful, and compliant. She was often there to help our son Joey (3 years older than her) when he needed his shoes tied, face washed, or teeth brushed. The problem was – she was somewhere around the 5-7 year [...]

→ read more

Whoever said, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” was an idiot. I’m not even sure what that saying means, exactly. Does it mean that if you truly love someone, you will never wrong them and therefore never have to say you are sorry? Or, does it mean that because you are in love [...]

→ read more

Before marriage and family, I worked as a certified snowboard instructor for 10 years. I recognize it’s easier to train a beginner to execute beneficial skills than it is to retrain someone who has unproductive ones. I’m making an effort to apply this philosophy to sharing in my household. When bickering over a toy between [...]

→ read more

Upon taking her first breath, my little Nora was ALL energy.  Even at the age of 3 months, I can remember laying Nora under her playmat where she would spend the next 5-10 minutes moving every single part of her body 100 miles an hour, as if she was training to run an Olympic marathon [...]

→ read more

Do you ever secretly (or not so secretly) long for a different stage of life? Maybe you want to go back to being DINKS (dual income, no kids). Or perhaps you’d like to return to the days of one child instead of four. Or just possibly you’d like to experience life without: Diapers Two year [...]

→ read more

I call it the “preschool dilemma” and it’s causing a lot of angst in many moms’ minds. Where to send them? When to send them? How to pay for it? When I tell these moms that I didn’t send my kids to preschool, mouths drop and eyebrows raise like I’m some sort of back hills, [...]

→ read more

Please tell me I’m not alone in feeling some (if not all) of the following statements throughout the course of a normal {mommy} day? “I’m just not doing enough.” “If only I could be like __________.” “What if __________?” “(Insert your child’s name) isn’t like (insert a friend’s child’s name)! Is it because of something [...]

→ read more