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Category: Single Parenting

  • My Newest MomLife Today post!

    My Newest MomLife Today post! This month at www.MomLifeToday.com we are dealing with that age-old mommy problem – anger.  Mom’s March MADness!  I know that I struggle with this…it’s so easy to get overwhelmed and feel frustrated.  There are days when fire and smoke spew from my ears and words I’d rather keep to myself spill…

  • Struggling with Struggle

    Struggle I think I use that word too much.  I think I should use a different word more often. Maybe…conquering.  Don’t feel much like a conqueror.  And yet, God tells me I am.  “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”  Romans 9:37  More?  More than conquerors?  Mind-boggling. …

  • Worth

    Recently I began a Bible study with my oldest daughter and a few of her friends. At our first meeting all I had were Bibles and notebooks for the girls, but no Bible study book or even a topic. My prayer going into this study was that God would reveal what these girls most need…

  • Ducks in a Row? Nope…not even in the same pond.

    You know that old saying about getting your ducks in a row? My ducks aren’t in a row…in fact, I’m sure my ducks aren’t even in the same pond. I really want them to be…at least in the same pond. Golly, I don’t care about lines. I was never particularly fond of staying in the…

  • SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE

    SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE I’ve been learning a lot about love lately.  Loving my children well.  Loving my friends well.  Loving my family well.  Loving my Lord the best.  And especially how the Lord loves me. When I was looking up verses on love, it was amazing how many times God uses the word…

  • Leaving is Not an Option…This Family is About Staying

    There is something profoundly painful about a child saying they want to leave. It cuts to the core. I know that when my children say things like, “I’ll just go live with Dad,” or “I’ll just go live with insert name” or even “I want a different mommy,” it’s more about being frustrated than actually…

  • Where Did She Go?

    My daughter Elizabeth was complaining the other night at bedtime about a bunch of stuff.  I said, “Let’s pray about it. To which she replied with a wail, “But that never works!  I pray and God doesn’t answer.” Oh dear! I thought. I put my hand gently on her forehead and rubbed her eyebrow with…

  • Do You Welcome Inconvenience?….me neither.

    Sometimes being a single mom is so inconvenient. The other night – a school night – when I should have been rocking little ones to sleep, we were just finding our seats at the varsity basketball game where my oldest daughter was cheering. I love watching my daughter cheer…she rocks at it!  But it’s just no…

  • Hope in the New Year

    Happy 2013!  I saw something funny online yesterday.  It said, “My New Year’s resolution is to remember to write 2013.”  Wouldn’t it be nice if that was all that we needed to resolve to do?  I have so much I want to change about my life that I shudder to think what my resolution list would…

  • Single Mom Sorting – And I Don’t Mean the Laundry

    One of the most common aspects of my day is laundry!  May I be candid for a moment?  I dislike it…immensely. There is just so much of it. Always.  I’ve written about it before (Tripping Over Baskets).  Today, I have another spin on it. Last week I told my oldest daughter that it was her…