By Steph Fink “Sharks are to blood like Mom is to coffee,” my older son relayed to my younger son. Now that’s some classic material…let me write that down. Not wanting to forget to share this rich nugget with my husband at dinner that night, I wrote Jake’s sentence on my notepad that my friend, [...]
Creating blessing bags for the homeless and those in need has been on my mind ever since my youngest arrived out of his Wednesday night church class excited to tell me about the idea of creating these filled bags. During his weekly lesson they had discussed this topic and how we as families could create [...]
Do you choose a word each year to focus on, to inspire you to grow in a particular area, to keep you focused or to live your life by? For more years then I can remember I have had a OLW ( One Little Word) that I use to keep myself , my goals, my [...]
As our family has turned the calender to a new year and we are beginning to commit to new goals for 2012 I began to think how now would be a perfect time to begin reading the bible through together with our two youngest boys. I would like to tell you that I am committing [...]
By Steph Fink I recently had coffee with a woman that I really love and admire, my mentor. She’s humorous, graceful and most intriguingly, Godly. Not a, thump-ya-in-the-back-of-your-head-with-her-Bible-Godly, but a live-out-loud-what-the-Bible-says-Godly. She knows the Bible so well, that her life mirrors the words in the Bible. She’s a few miles further down the road of [...]
By: Steph Fink “Hey, that’s not a lady…that’s my Mom!” declared a boy that I once claimed to be my son in response to the store cashier calling me “Lady”. Of interest, this comment came from the very same child that later that day thanked me for the “Mexican food” as he performed Ninja moves [...]
By: Steph Fink “Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies. It led them on until it hovered over the place of the child. They could hardly contain themselves: They were in the right place! They had arrived at the right time! They entered the house and saw [...]
Christmas day can become a day of ripping into packages and stuffing ourselves with festive foods. This year I challenge each of us to stop and allow our kids to get in Line to see Jesus – Maybe not a straight line more like a circle around the tree or table and share the Christmas [...]
By Steph Fink “How do you spell _____, Mom?” “Stretch it out and tell me the sounds you hear,” is my predictable response to my elementary scholars. Predictably, their scholarly responses are rolled eyes followed by some sound/letter guesses. I guess you could say that we’re a predictable bunch! Recently, I was reading in Acts [...]
Q: Did Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box drop off come and go and you are bummed you missed out? Are you looking for a way for your kids to give back this Christmas season? A: Begin a new tradition with your kids by Building-A-Box on Operation Christmas Child’s virtual Build-a-Box website! – Build A Box [...]
