Author Archives: Julie Lyles Carr

I can feel the symptoms rising up.I’m tired.And the pantry in my kitchen?It’s making me crazy. Yep.The kitchen pantry is my canary in the coal mine, so to speak.And when I hit K...

{image courtesy of Netflix} So. We’re not what I would call a censorship family.We don’t think film ratings are worth much.We don’t parent from a place of tryin...

After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? Galatians 3:3 They would huddle in the parking lot, crouched down behind car bumpers, giddy with ...

It’s not like it I had some well laid-out, closely planned strategy. To raise teens who were responsible human beings. Really, unpacked, the one strategy I did have was sim...

Here’s the thing. When my kids have friends over, I have one primary goal that I figure should be the result of allowing them to add more humanity to our constant chaos: St...

Here’s the thing with mothering. For the most part, it’s a continuous series of small things. Little moments. Tiny nuances. Modest adjustments. That all make up this...

It wasn’t the way we had thought we would be spending our spring break last year as a family. And yet there we were. Soaking up time with my husband Michael’s father,...

We were driving home from church when my seventh child, 9-year-old Merci, piped up and said, “Well. I certainly had an interesting day at Sunday School today.” She then proceede...

So this may be one of those posts that you might accidentally print and leave somewhere sort of obvious but not obvious. Like posted on the fridge. Or the bathroom mirror. A subtle hint. Because the b...

We go through coffee makers around here.Wear them plumb out. Expensive coffee makers with milk steamers.Cheap coffee makers bought at the hardware store.Everything in between.We kill &lsquo...