Back to School

I’m always trying to show my sons what it means to live out their faith, to bring Jesus with them everywhere they go. This is not always easy. No matter what your age or spiritual maturity, [...]

Every year I declare it won’t sneak up on me and every year I fail. All of a sudden I get an email from the school reminding me about Meet The Teachers night and I look at the calendar and I [...]

If Pinterest were in charge of back to school, here's what it would look like: 1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 And here's what I have to say: No Pinterest. I will not measure my success as a mom by your [...]

I have a secret plan for back to school this year. My secret plan is to avoid comparing myself and my summer to other moms this school year. If you struggle at all like I do with comparing [...]

Judging by the store displays spilling into the aisles, back to school season is upon us. And if you're a parent with a soon-to-be college freshman, this back to school season may just be your [...]

My son is about to turn eleven. Soon he’ll be going to middle school, and with that he’ll be out of the house more often--hanging with friends, going to dances and youth group, and I’ll see him a [...]

Firewalls. Smartphones. Snapchat. Seriously--our parents NEVER had to deal with this stuff. As if parenting wasn't hard enough, now we have to monitor sophisticated technology that frankly our [...]

Things have changed a lot in the last twelve months. My eldest son went to college last year. We coached him as he made plans for dorm necessities. We prompted when it seemed he needed to get [...]

Don't. Freak. Out. This has become a little back-to-school-mantra for my family lately because it seems like every day there is something new to be overwhelmed by, especially during the beginning [...]