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Quiz: Life Before and After a Child

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Once you have your first child, your life will change dramatically. You’ll redefine the words busy and tired. Sleeping in might become something you have to bribe your spouse to experience. You’ll mark every week of your child’s life and forget your own birthday. Whether these changes seem good or bad depends on your perspective, but the change is inevitable. It might be fun to record just how different life becomes once your bundle of joy makes her grand entrance. Take this quiz now, while you are pregnant (or hoping to be), and then take it again a few months … Continue reading →

Them’s the Breaks!

How quickly and easily life can change! It did for me 7 weeks ago. All it took was our pup’s four wet paws to make the tile floor slippery, and next minute I was seeing stars. When I could eventually get up to sit in a chair, I suspected I’d broken my arm. I’ve had enough broken bones in my life to know how it feels. I hoped and prayed that wasn’t the case. That was before I looked down and saw the bone sticking out at a peculiar angle. Even then I thought perhaps it was just dislocated. Mick … Continue reading →

Making a Major Decision

My last blogs have been about submission and marriage. Does that mean my husband does whatever he likes and I’m expected to go along with it? No, it does not. He would never make a decision without consulting me and talking it over. Similarly I would not make a major decision without his input. Before he retired, my darling was under considerable stress at work with expectations beyond what any human being could reasonably do. It looked likely to get worse. He suffered many migraines, severe neck and shoulder pains and other health issues caused by stress. I was very … Continue reading →

Stepping Out in Prayer

One of the most encouraging things we can do for others is to pray for them. It is also encouraging for us knowing others are praying for us. The other writers and I who were part of the 40 day prayer covenant, found it hard sometimes to make time for praying for each other. Yet we were so encouraged by our participation in the 40 day prayer covenant and the answers to prayer we saw, that we opted to continue praying for each other on a regular basis. A person a day on a daily basis. It’s a lovely feeling … Continue reading →

You Can Go Home Again!

Greetings from New Orleans! After two years and two months, Tyler and I are finally back home in New Orleans. Okay, we’re not in our house but we are in New Orleans to stay. We arrived Friday and are staying at a hotel until my house is complete. It’s coming along slowly but the work being done is excellent. The house looks better than it did when I bought it eight years ago! Returning to a city that has suffered a major disaster like Katrina is something that you have to experience for yourself to really understand. When you have … Continue reading →

Helping Your Kids Deal With Life Changes: Writing A Life Book

Sometimes as parents we forget that childhood can be full of changes for our kids. These changes include developmental milestones like going from diapers to underwear. It can also include serious changes like divorce, death of a loved one or getting a new sibling after being an only child for many years. It can also include a life-altering experience like a hurricane that comes to town uninvited and uproots you from the only home you have ever known. Tyler has done remarkably well since Katrina but I know it bothers him that things have changed. I know he’s looking forward … Continue reading →

Five Times You Need to Adjust Your Budget

If you have a set budget for every month, and have found that you can pretty much keep it every month. You may not give it much thought. If you are using the envelope system then you stop spending when you are out of money. If you have an emergency fund or sinking funds set up, then you use those to cover emergencies, and put your extra money into building those accounts back up. At this point, your budget is not going to be something you focus on all of the time. There are several events that will cause to … Continue reading →

When Baby Makes Three (Part II)

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Babyhood Paul Reiser, a notable comedian and creator the sitcom Mad About You, detailed similar trials and tribulations in his book Babyhood. During the first few months of their child’s life, he and his wife both noticed that they literally never heard half of what the other one was saying. “…it turns out that we were just out of steam, too weak to speak audibly.” He also discusses the ugly rivalries that would break out like wildfire over things like diaper changing and getting up in the middle of the night. Their entire focus was their child. Their day-to-day activities … Continue reading →

The Life Diet

You know the hardest part of following any lifestyle changes is that people do not have time? When surveyed, that’s usually the answer most people give. They say they would love to exercise more – but they don’t have time. They would love to be more involved in a project, but they don’t have enough time. They would love to diet, but they don’t have time to prepare all those meals. The problem with our lives is that we are so busy, that we are literally juggling too much. We need to filter out what we don’t want to do … Continue reading →