This morning on our way to school my children and I were praying.  Our morning car prayers are some of the best times in my mothering career.  Listening to the kids share their hearts is just delightful. 
We pray in the same fashion that my parents taught my brother and me.  Gratitude, followed by petition then ending [...]

Today is the launch of www.abetterview.org.  Sarah Stirman, Paula Harrington, Steve Tucker and I have been working on this for a while and are just delighted to invite you over for a look! 
We are going to be discussing real life here so buckle your seat belt and hold on!

All sorts of things are changing around the Sanders house.  Going and coming, work and school.  I am concentrating on holding back a tide of dirty clothes that threaten to break down the laundry room door in the midst of dropping off and picking up. Not to mention the mountainous paperwork that is involved in sending offspring to be [...]

I love Screw Ups.  People who haven’t got it all together and don’t mind if you know that fact.  Folks that don’t have the “good common sense” to hide their failures in the back closet when company comes over.  Instead, brings them right into the living room to have coffee.
These are the kinds of  clay that [...]

Today many of us will face obstacles that seem too large to overcome.  Pain and illness. People who appear impossible to love and incapable of receiving it.  Bills that drop out of the sky and threaten to wipe out our meager family resources. Add to this the constant media stream dire predictions for the fate of our loved ones, not to mention [...]

Sherry climbed out of bed, stretching and yawning her way toward the bathroom.  “Two more days.” she sighed into her vanity mirror as the steam clouded around her.  Tears pooled in her eyes.  “I can’t..” she said to the mirror.  “I cannot ignore him for two more days.  I don’t have it in me.”
Suddenly a frightening image popped [...]

Good uses for those  clothes that we all keep in our closets for the Day That Never Comes.
1.  Skinny jeans can be turned into hippy looking wind socks for your kids play house.
2.  That bra that now requires duct taped cups to hold in breast?  New squirrel hammock.
3.  That expensive dress you bought that was just one [...]