The cost of participating in youth sports is an ongoing and ever-increasing one. Parents shoulder the responsibility for sports gear, travel expenses, sports camps, pictures, registration fees and more. As such, fundraising has become a readily accepted practice by...
Have you experienced the discouraging feeling when you realize you’ve been in a similar (bad) place before. Maybe at the end of the year you are reviewing goals, setting new goals, and you realize you were in the same place this time last year! Talk about...
Being kind, it seems, is sometimes missing in our house. Or in our car, while in route to our destination. Or anywhere we are. The last week or so our kids have frequently gone into what I call "verbal warfare" over the smallest things. Sometimes they are not even...
Married life with kids has changed my wife and I in a major way. I like to joke that the first decade of 2000 was our "baby making" decade. Still not sure if my wife likes when I say that or not. We started off in 2000 with our first child, and ended in 2009 with...
Living an active lifestyle will make you a healthier person. Exercise helps prevent disease. Therefore when you complete regular physical activities you reduce your risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancer types. Then why don't a large...
It’s Friday and that means my friend Shawn Snyder, from The Odd Couple Blog, and I are teaming up on our weekly marriage blog. Shawn will share her thoughts (in green) on the topic through the eyes of a woman/wife, and I’ll share mine (in blue) through the eyes of a...
There are many labels I have heard being placed on homeschool families. But I was surprised to see a homeschool parent being called ignorant. I am not sure how I would respond, but this particular mom agreed she is ignorant! Watch the video below....
Marriage and family are very important to me, and much of my writing centers around that. If you have been reading my blog for the past month, you may have read that I joined the writing team of an award winning marriage and family blog, BlackandMarriedWithKids.com...
Are you courageously living life? Or are you passively dying? I came across a quote, that really had me thinking. Is it easier to passively live our lives? To take the easy route? To live beneath the way we truly desire? Although it may be easier, it is...
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