For the past several years, during autumn, I’ve worked at a corn maze. If you’ve never been to a corn maze, the way it works is that after the corn (or in our case sorghum) is planted, paths are cut through the acreage, typically in some shape or formation. Maze-goers enter the maze…Continue reading Where’s God in the Maze of Life?
Cloudy With a Chance of Faith
I’ve been pretty absent from writing here lately due to a number of factors, but primarily because I GOT A JOB! Actually, right now I am actually juggling THREE jobs: my new job, cashiering at the pumpkin farm, and tutoring a teenager. And, oh yes, there is that bit about being a housewife and mother…Continue reading Cloudy With a Chance of Faith
10 Totally Uncool Things My Parents Did that I’m Thankful for Now
This post might also be called: How to Keep Your Kid from Becoming an Entitled Punk Lately I’ve been thinking about a lot of unconventional and counter-cultural things my parents did in raising my siblings and me. I like to think their methods helped us NOT to become total schmucks. Even though I despised many…Continue reading 10 Totally Uncool Things My Parents Did that I’m Thankful for Now
How to Teach Your Kids About Ownership: Raising Homemade Disciples
Hi Friends, sorry for being absent so long and HUGE apologies to my dad for flaking out on promoting his book. In a subsequent post, I am going to explain where I’ve been (NEW JOB!), but without further ado, I want to share with you the 5th installment in the series from my dad’s book Raising…Continue reading How to Teach Your Kids About Ownership: Raising Homemade Disciples
How Much Authority Over Your Kids is the Right Amount? (And .99 cent Kindle sale!)
It’s WEEK 4 of my dad’s awesome series on parenting, featuring excerpts from his book Raising Homemade Disciples, which IS ON SALE FOR ONLY .99 cents this week on KINDLE. If you’ve been waiting for a deal, THIS IS IT! Carpe Diem! Last week we learned about the 4 main purposes for families, the first of which is…Continue reading How Much Authority Over Your Kids is the Right Amount? (And .99 cent Kindle sale!)
4 Purposes for the Family– Raising Homemade Disciples
My dad, Brian Tenny, is back! This week, he is going to share 4 of the purposes for the family as he does in his book Raising Homemade Disciples. This is my absolute favorite part of his book–seeing him breakdown some of the parenting essentials in a holistic way. I’m not much for behavior modification parenting books,…Continue reading 4 Purposes for the Family– Raising Homemade Disciples
The Flood Story – Raising Homemade Disciples Week 2
I’m VERY excited to share another of my dad’s stories from Raising Homemade Disciples. In his first post, I let my dad tell a glowing story about me and NOW, because I’m nothing if not fair, I’m going to let him share a truly horrifying epoch of bad behavior about MY BROTHER, Shane. HA! (What can…Continue reading The Flood Story – Raising Homemade Disciples Week 2
How I Finally Started Enjoying Motherhood
Don’t get me wrong. I love my kids. I’d take a bullet for them, or donate a kidney, or trash my waistline, sagify my bustline, ruin my sleep schedule, and jeopardize my sanity for them–oh wait, I did most of those things already. But if I’m being totally honest, I didn’t really ENJOY them all…Continue reading How I Finally Started Enjoying Motherhood
Raising Homemade Disciples: A Crisis of Faith: A Giveaway!
Over the weeks between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day I’m pretty busy working my job as a cashier at a strawberry farm; however, my amazing dad is allowing me to feature some of his writing here on my blog. Since he and my mom are wise, witty, and wonderful parents, I was eager to have…Continue reading Raising Homemade Disciples: A Crisis of Faith: A Giveaway!
Dusty Dreams
Start by clicking over to the blog if you’re on email because there is a sound track to this post. 🙂 Push play and then read. This past weekend I went to Nicaragua with my friend Kay Bruner and a new friend, Annie Snyder. We went to lead a retreat for 90 mostly missionary women. …Continue reading Dusty Dreams