Enhance | Guest Post

The last few days, a particular word has cropped up in my mind and heart – Enhance.

I just discovered how to use Photoshop to edit photos.  As I was playing around, I was amazed at how a few clicks could bring beautiful changes to a picture.  The picture itself wasn’t made new, [...]

M2M: When It’s Hard to Love

A friend and I had talked about this over the phone a few weeks ago, about loving people and how hard it can be sometimes, so in honor of that friend and some recent experiences I’ve had, I hope this makes you giggle.:)This is for all the people in Walmart or Price Cutter who jump [...]

* Mom2Mom: The New Work Out Program *

“Darn! Another day of no work out!”

This thought crossed my mind as my morning passed into lunch time without one free time slot for a work out. This has been a constant frustration of mine since beginning daycare. Even if I can find time between breakfast time and snack time, between craft time and [...]

* Mom2Mom: From Home to the Work Place . . and Back Again *

While those of us that stay at home with our families, experience our own frustrations, from people assuming we do nothing all day long, to lecturing us for wasting our degrees, working moms have their own set of frustrations.  People often look down on them as being women who don’t truly care for their families [...]

Early Edition of SYLW: Haiti- How You Can Help

With the earthquake devastation in Haiti, an early edition of Shine Your Light was warranted….I’ve been ready to jump on a plane and just go….not that I have a passport or anything (I’m thinking a passport is in the works, though, over the next year), but I would give my eye teeth to go and [...]

* Mom2Mom: In Bondage to Blogging? *

I didn’t know it could be so complicated. This whole blogging thing. I entered the world of blogging five years ago. It was for connection, plain and simple. I had been diagnosed with infertility and wanted to connect with other women on the same heart-rending journey. And I did. Wonderfully so. Some of those women have become [...]

* You’re Doing a Good Job Mom *

From an email forward that came my way. . . It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response,the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I’m on the phoneand ask to be taken to the store. Inside I’m thinking, “Can’t you seeI’m on the [...]

Shine Your Light: Cyrus International/Trafficking Hope

This is a post Mel shared over on Real Heart Prints….just spreading the word.:)

Ever since we saw the movie, Taken, I’ve had a new awareness.  When I was little, I knew that people were kidnapped, and I knew that people were in slavery….but I don’t think it was real to me.  In fact, it’s a [...]

* A Day with NieNie *

I discovered NieNie several months ago. I kept seeing these buttons on blogs everywhere:”Who in the world is NieNie?” I wondered. Finally, one day, I clicked one of the buttons.The day I clicked the button is the day NieNie decided to show her new face to the world. For the next hour, I was engrossed [...]

Shine Your Light Wednesdays

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Shine Your Light Wednesdays will be starting soon over on Real Heart Prints. My hope in starting this series is to inspire you to reach out and lend a hand….whether it be here at home or far away…..Our pastor at church has been preaching a series [...]

Mid-Week Pick-Me-Up: Darlene Deibler Rose

I know this video is really long, but basically, it’s just the recording of Darlene Deibler Rose that my mom let me listen to when I was a teenager.  I’m so excited to have found it on Youtube!  Mamas, I encourage you to multi-task today and listen to this recording while you are rocking your babies, while [...]