Tag Archives: Relationships

Dear dad, You left. Is it weird that I call you dad even though you didn't raise me? Sometimes I look at my own children and I don't know how you could leave. I am not upset. I don't rememb...

Fathers Day is in 3 days. Have you made reservations at his favorite restaurant and ensured the kids' craft projects are properly drying in a secret place so as not to spoil the surprise? Neither have...

Do you ever feel that the way media portrays fatherhood is not the most respectful? This needs to stop, for what we see in the media definitely carries over into our lives. The truth is that fatherhoo...

Father's day makes me think long and hard about the man my kids call 'Dad.'  I wasn't sure what kind of father my husband would be, as his real father wasn't a part of his growing up life, and he...

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 Henry Gurke was, by all accounts and purposes, a normal young man. There were no signs that he would do anyth...

May is National Hearing and Speech Month.  I never really paid attention to this until I became personally acquainted with hearing loss myself. It happened so gradually that I didn&rsq...

It's been one of 'those seasons' around my house and I hope we've become good enough friends now that I can share this and be raw and real, and not have you think I'm a frazzled mother all of the time...

For many of you, Mother's Day is a special time to honor your mom. And, isn't it wonderful that we have a national day set aside to do just that? But, what about those of us who have had a difficult r...

If Mother’s Day cards were the standard to which we were all held as mothers, I’m willing to bet most of us would be failing. Oh, if only we could be her!  We’d be go...

Two summers ago, as Adrain and I collapsed from an action-packed weekend, we talked about the fact that we have hit a new (and great) place in parenting, and it has encouraged me so much as our kids j...