What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Jen McManus. I rock the stay-at-home thing. Love my kiddos, 3 who came the natural way and 2 foster babies that were reunited with biological family.. I love to work out, play outside, eat . . .
Questions of eternal significance: Do your kids believe in Santa?
We are a house divided on the Santa front. My boys don’t believe in Santa, but my girls do. Jafta is decidedly OVER Santa. This picture may give you an idea of his feelings on the matter: And also this one: Jafta is not impressed. It’s funny that any of my kids believe in Santa, because I’ve never told any of them about him. I don’t have strong feelings against the Santa thing, but I also don’t love the idea of weaving a hugely elaborate lie. I’m conflicted, I’ll admit. . . .
What I want you to know: I’m a normal mom struggling with an addiction to pain pills
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by anonymous reader. What I want you to know is that I have been addicted to narcotic pain medication for over four years. I work full-time as an investment professional, I am married, a Christian, . . .
Mama Said: What do you scrimp and splurge on?
On this episode of Mama Said, Sarah and I are talking about the areas where we scrimp vs. where we splurge in our budget. How about you? What are the things you splurge on? Where do you tighten the belt? . . .
10 Rules for Raising Independent Kids
We’ve all run into them before: People who seem to have no idea how to function in the real world. High schoolers who can’t keep track of their own school assignments. College kids who have never done a load of laundry. Young adults who know how to upload a video to YouTube but have no idea how to prepare a meal. And as much as we want to blame Facebook or liberals or “kids these days” for these shortcomings, the truth is that parents can be a significant part of the problem. While I think the . . .
Duck Dynasty, first amendment rights, and Christian values
My facebook feed has been lit up with people responding to the suspension of Phil, the patriarch of A & E’s popular Duck Dynasty reality show. For full disclosure . . . I watch this show and enjoy it. Sarah James turned me on to it and I find the family to be inexplicably endearing. They all have a great sense of humor about themselves and I appreciate the clearly loving family dynamic. They live a lifestyle that is completely different from mine, yet I find them somehow relatable and . . .
What I want you to know: Adoption can be selfish
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Kathy. Adoption is not an unselfish act. We didn’t choose adoption because we wanted to help a child or save him/her from a terrible life. We chose it because it was the only way to grow . . .
What I want you to know: I married young and that’s okay
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Shelley Armenta. Marriage isn’t exactly an eyebrow raiser. Most people are raised with the belief that marriage is a rite of passage. What makes my marriage seem crazy to so many people is the . . .
The gift of music
I grew up in a muscial family. My father played guitar, he and my mom were both singers, and all of us took piano lessons. It was not unusual for us to do impromptu shows or to break into song throughout the day. I loved growing up around music – both listening to it and creating it. Earlier this year I went to Idea Camp and stayed in a house with about 16 other friends. Some of the guys brought guitar and every evening we had a sing-along. It reminded me of how much fun music is, and . . .
Some thoughts on Black Santa
There has been a lot of talk in the past week about the race of Santa, as a Fox News anchor had an on-air rant about the “fact” that Santa (and Jesus) are both white. Now, Santa is a fictional character who lives in the North Pole, and last I heard Jesus was from the Middle East. Santa’s race seems like it could be a fluid thing that could change based on context. Jesus’s . . . not so much. Though judging by the preponderance of blond Jesus pictures I saw in my childhood, it seems . . .
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