From the monthly archives:
In February I joined a book club. I talk a lot about children’s books on my blog but this book club is just for grown-ups. I’m getting to know a great group of ladies from my community and I’m doing something that I love…reading! Another plus is that most of the members [...]
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I had forty great responses to my book giveaway for Let’s Make a Joyful Noise: Celebrating Psalm 100. The winner is Kilikina at Live Each Moment…to the Fullest. My favorite part of every giveaway is reading the comments. I asked you to tell me how you or your child likes to make [...]
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Sometimes books imitate life and other times life imitates books. I’ve written before about the unusual names that Paul and Megan gave their kittens last summer. I thought it would be fun to provide an explanation of how Paul’s cat, Explorer Firecat McLane, got his name.
“Kittens love to explore.” So begins The Kitten [...]
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The spring Bloggy Giveaway Carnival is going to be a “Boom-Chaka-Laka” Rockin’ Good Time thanks to Phil Joel’s Deliberate Kids album. In 2006 Phil Joel stepped down from playing bass guitar for the Christian Rock group, the Newsboys. He and his wife used their local church children’s ministry experience to write and produce [...]
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Paul (4 years old) was logging into his Webkinz account tonight and decided to take a detour. First he googled his Webkinz password and then he googled his name. It was cute until Paul decided to click on the search results which prompted a discussion about “not all websites being good for kids.”
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Here is a funny story about myself. On Wednesday I was delivering a meal to a couple from church who recently had a baby. They are new to the church so I’d never been to their house. In fact I’d never been to their town before and it was a bit of [...]
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This week I’ve been listening over and over again to a new worship album called Empty and Beautiful by Matt Maher. The music and lyrics have really spoken to my heart because they reflect the heart of God. These are Matt’s own words regarding the title song:
“‘Hold fast to the confessions you have [...]
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Adam’s baby received an awesome mention in the May 2008 edition of Christianity Today magazine (pg 73). It is included in a list of “favorite youth-ministry websites of Mark Oestreicher, president of Youth Specialties.”
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Adam is in the habit of inviting people that I’ve never met before to stay in our home. The first time sounded like this, “By the way Kristen, this is Dave. He is going to live in our basement next summer.” Dave was Adam’s Northern Irish teammate three summers ago when Adam [...]
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