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I started this blog to share thoughts on small-town life, faith-based parenting, and other essential things.

My posts are featured weekly in two Louisiana newspapers:

The Enterprise & Interstate Progress--Mansfield and The Coushatta Citizen--Coushatta.

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FRENEMY TO ROOMMATE TO FRIEND

You know how everyone says God works in mysterious ways? For a lot of us, we don’t really know what that means exactly, because we’ve...

CAPTURING TIME IN A BOOK

When my kids were little I made a gazillion scrapbooks of them. Okay, I’m not solid on the exact number of albums, but it was a lot. ...

THE FIFTH TIME I LOST MY SON

My youngest child Cameron was born in 2000 and I have lost him five times. I feel like I should say that in front of some sort of...

WHO IS THIS PROVERBS 31 WOMAN?

Let’s face it-none of us really feel we measure up to the standards listed in Proverbs 31:10-31. I mean look at this partial list: Verse...

JESUS IN THE DRIVE THRU

Does anyone out there do a regular family worship? We did off and on when the boys were young. I’ll admit-as they got older and into...

CHECK IN INSTEAD OF CHECKING OUT OR CHECKING OFF

I think this may be a touchy subject but I’m going to say it anyway. God wants us to spend time with Him together as a family, and also...

JEEPS AND GUNS ARE PRETTY IMPORTANT DISCUSSION TOPICS

Men and women have different ways of connecting with each other-I think we can all agree on that. We also tend to get forget this fact...