by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 27, 2013 | MentoRING, Raising Kids
My seven year-old son and his team won the first tournament he’d ever played in last summer. This year our team started right where we left off. We won the first five games of the season. We were all thinking…repeat! Unfortunately that isn’t how...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 26, 2013 | Communication, PerseveRING
Last night I stayed up and watched the first few episodes of Scandal (on DVD) with my wife. I began watching the series with her before the last season ended. I’ve caught some of the social media conversation when new episodes were still on. People are...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 24, 2013 | Faith, ProspeRING
If you were born before 1990 you are probably very familiar with the “blue pill and red pill” analogy used in the title of this post. This analogy was made famous in the film The Matrix. Over the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with a choice...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 22, 2013 | Money, RestoRING
Milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish. For many, that’s the weekly grocery list or ingredients for a special dish. For my family, it’s the 6 ingredients which we must keep far away from our toddler. I learned of his food allergies at the tender...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 21, 2013 | Raising Kids
Although I blog and spend way too many hours online via my phone and my laptop, I completely missed the wave of Twitter’s Vine app. Wait, you did too? Well, it didn’t last too long so you didn’t miss much. Instagram Video is now here less than six...