Yesterday challenged my emotions. Before church, I received a phone call with some surprising news that gave me a second's worth of panic and forced me to cling to God's promises that He never leaves us nor forsakes us. As Sunday school ended, Hubby called my...
ABOUT THE BOOK:The year is 1945. The war is over and 21-year-old Betty Lake has been invited to Europe to sing in a USO tour for American soldiers who now occupy Hitler's Germany. The first nights performance is a hit. Betty becomes enthralled with the applause, the...
Today is the last day I will spend as a forty-year-old. Yes, tomorrow I turn 41. I embraced turning forty and celebrated with family and friends. Turning 35 was so much harder for me. As I remembered the events of the past year, I became overwhelmed by the incredible...
On Friday, I blogged about my modern day princess and the pea issues. Last night, I moved my bed back to its original position. When I removed the mattress, I was relieved to see no pea nesting on the box springs. After sliding off the mattress and box springs, I...
When I was younger, I remember reading the story of the Princess and the Pea. Maybe I'm a princess at heart, but I don't sleep well.I don't like my bed.There. I said it. The truth is out.Our mattress is only a couple of years old. I LOVED it...at first. So comfy. The...
Debut author Leeana Tankersley constructs a literary collage of memories and mementoes from living in the Middle East during the Iraq War in her travel memoir, Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places (Nov. 2009). She reflects on discovering beauty in a foreign...
The other day I helped a child write the letter of his first name. I cupped my hand over his and demonstrated how to make a straight line, beginning at the top and going to the bottom, and then adding two bumps. That may not be the technical explanation for a letter...
Sons of ThunderbySusan May WarrenLisa's Thoughts:I received Sons as Thunder free from the publisher in exchange for this book review, but even if I hadn't, I would've bought the book as soon as it hit the shelves. I've been a Susan May Warren fan since I found her...
As a mom and avid scrapbooker, I’ve recorded many first moments in my boys’ lives. Part of my day job includes recording developmental growth in children. Leve Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, who took a constructivist’s view in child development. His zone of...
I'm an emotional person. My mom used to say that if people looked at me cross-eyed, I'd burst into tears. If I see another person crying, I tear up. I cry at movies, sentimental commercials, and those Mom moments that tug on the heart.Emotions help us to think through...
