Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13: 12 My oldest son’s 10th birthday was over three weeks ago now. I didn’t realize it till a few days ago, but he has been almost daily checking the mail for a birthday card or gift. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘love’
Better Late Than Never
Posted in A Mother's Heart, love, tagged children, hope, love on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Love Must Be Fierce
Posted in A Mother's Heart, love, tagged children, Kids, Life, love, toddlers on March 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Isn’t he cute? How would you like him pinning you down, chewing on your face? Yes, I know… so I’ve heard….they are ‘affectionate’ dogs. Many days during our addition construction, we had workers of all kinds out at our house. One particular day, we had a group of men out that came to do sheet [...]
Essays on Beauty: Anna and the King
Posted in Essays on Beauty, love, tagged beauty, Courage, honor, love, Men, women on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Brad and I have never had cable TV since we’ve been married. Most places we’ve lived, we get the major networks via the TV antennae. I grew up in a home where my mom hid the TV in the closet in hopes that we would forget we had it. I also think her idea was based on the principle that if something requires too much work to do it, then you just won’t do it. So since it was such a hassle to get the TV out of the closet, we supposedly would not go to the trouble to roll it out to watch it. Hmmm…. I think my kids kinda think about everything in their closets the same way. “Too much work, out-a-sight, out-a-mind.”
Since we’ve lived in the country, we’ve gotten movies on Netflix. It started the week we brought Jonathan home from the hospital. I knew I’d have to have something to do to keep me down and resting… and it had been a few seasons since I had caught up with my favorite TV show, Alias. Jennifer Garner was my weekly heroine. She was kind of a superwoman. She lived a life I wished I had…. Well sorta. I completely liked the undercover spy
“Hair-Cut Not Hurt Me!”
Posted in A Mother's Heart, Kids, Life, tagged Belief, children, Courage, Kids, Life, love, toddlers, trust on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
as I was going about getting breakfast cleaned up and laundry started, he followed me around, in and out of my legs, saying in his halting baby way, “Hair cut not hurt me. Hair cut not hurt me. Hair cut not hurt me.” Over and over again he said it, as if he were talking up his own courage to get his haircut. Even though I have a very fun looking, child sized haircutting cape with cute fish all over it,
“Mom, Can We Go To Happy Hour?”
Posted in A Mother's Heart, Kids, Life, tagged children, Kids, Life, love, mommy, preschoolers, toddlers, weekend on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend, my husband who is being the awesome daddy, has taken my two older boys on a father-son fishing/camping trip. It is Ethan’s 10th birthday this weekend and he wanted to do something that would communicate the concept that he is the ‘beloved son’. Three cheers for Dad! Now if I can just survive [...]
Essays on Beauty: “Mom, What is Pornography?”
Posted in A Mother's Heart, Conversations with Ashley, Essays on Beauty, tagged addiction, beauty, children, honor, integrity, Kids, Life, love, Men, pornography, respect, sex, teenagers, women on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Mom, What is that P word Pastor Chuck was talking about?” This was the question that started what is for me a very difficult and at the core of being a woman, an often painful conversation. Sunday morning’s sermon was about “honoring your mate”. It was a very good sermon with very practical advice. Pastor brought up the topic of Pornography as being one of the most dishonoring things, a husband can partake in. After church, Ashley, Lilly, Jonathan and I, went to Walmart for our weekly grocery run. As we were pulling in to the parking lot Ashley asked me what Pastor Chuck was talking about when he said the ‘p’ word. She couldn’t remember what he had called it, and didn’t even remember how to pronounce it. We’ve had discussions about pornography before. I guess I just didn’t realize she didn’t know what it was called.
I could have simply answered, “Oh, naked pictures. Mostly of women”. But in my mothers heart, I knew the deeper question my daughter was really asking. She wanted the question answered of “Why pornography? Why is it such a big deal?” Once again, I began to tell her about something I myself don’t always understand. That is a really hard thing to do. “What is Pornography?” I think that is harder to explain than sex. Many parents get weird about the sex topic. But I would rather have that one any day! In her little 11 yr old mind, she can’t figure out why boys or men would like to look at naked women. My 9 year old son is in the ‘girls are gross’ stage so this doesn’t help with her question. The ‘why’ just simply doesn’t compute. So, with much stumbling over my words as I was suddenly ‘on the spot’ searching my own heart about the ‘what’ of it, here is what I told her.
