by Arise2 Grow More | Apr 16, 2025 | Family
A long time ago when my kids were preschool age, they participated in an Easter egg hunt during the children’s worship time. There were only 12 eggs hidden so the older kids had to help the younger ones find an egg. The adult leader told the kids not to open the...
by Arise2 Grow More | Mar 26, 2025 | Family
My previous post, “Fasting Time,” mentioned the times that Scott and I fasted. Besides those times, I’ve been doing a type of intermittent fasting for over a year now. I don’t remember when I started fasting intermittently. Maybe it was during Scott’s cancer treatment...
by Arise2 Grow More | Mar 5, 2025 | Family
When I was younger, I remember my parents had a book on baby and childcare from a Dr. Spock. Before I was married, a coworker once wondered why people needed a license to drive but no license to have kids. After being married, I wondered why we had premarital...
by Arise2 Grow More | Feb 19, 2025 | Family
It was Valentine’s Day last Friday. My son brought home a big box of specialty cookies. Scott and I chose the traditional chocolate chip and Marcus chose the cookies n cream cookie. He said we could have two each. I chose to save the last one for my daughter. Of...
by Arise2 Grow More | Jan 29, 2025 | Family
Moving to Tennessee to be closer to our daughter meant being farther away from our parents. We would be closer to one of Scott’s sisters by 8 driving hours but farther from the rest of our siblings. This meant it would be harder to visit the rest of the families. When...
by Arise2 Grow More | Jan 8, 2025 | Family
As parents, we have a major influence on our children’s habits. Depending on our kids’ ages, we can easily help them form good spiritual habits or at least encourage them through being an example to follow. Before my kids were able to read, I would read Bible stories...
