Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 7 of the Virtual Blog Tour for FaithLeaps: The Christian Mom’s Guide to Passion, Purpose and Profits by author Alyssa Avant. On the last stop of the tour, Alyssa visited Rosann Cunningham’s blog at Christian Supermom. Below is the great interview I… Read More »
FaithLeaps is a brand-new book from Christian mom and entrepreneur Alyssa Avant. I’ve had the pleasure to receive an advance copy of this book for review. I gleaned many insights from the book, but I think the most beneficial—and one that has the tendency to slip away from mind first—was that God made me who… Read More »
One of the Bible verses that stays with me through thick and thin and good times and bad is this one: The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. —Proverbs 14:1 (NIV) I think I like it because it’s appropriately convicting, yet practical as it offers… Read More »
My daughter had a school project due. We headed to Michael’s, which is, of course, a requirement for all school project creations. Something about that day’s trip was different for me. I don’t know. I’ve shopped in Michael’s hundreds—maybe thousands—of times. But that day, I was nostalgic. I longed to trim photo edges with scallop… Read More »
This is not anything new, really. My house is always a mess. By “house” I mean both my physical dwelling, as well as my mental/emotional/spiritual “house.” And I straddle sanity between enjoying the permission to be unstructured with the overwhelming desire to “get it together” and get it cleaned up. The first few weeks of… Read More »
Breakfast at our house can be a challenge, for a variety of reasons: The kids wake up starving. They could eat a country farmer meal in one sitting. I don’t wake up until I’ve had two cups of coffee or it’s 10 a.m. or whichever comes first. It’s important, then, I have some plans in… Read More »
Wow. We’re almost back to school, and I’m overjoyed with ecstasy I hate to see the summer end. We’ve gotten into some really bad habits this summer, though, which bears a direct correlation to my Type 1-ness and my P-ness (on the Myers-Briggs profile), I’m afraid. We’re going to bed too late and waking too… Read More »
photo credit: LifeSupercharger I heard a sermon a few months back about the idea of pruning. At the Bernard house, we’ve learned the hard way that when plants, trees, and shrubs aren’t probably trimmed at certain stages of growth, they become unwieldy messes. Their limbs climb high and awkwardly or stick every which way. During… Read More »
I wanted to pass along two really interesting links for you, especially as we continue to explore issues of time management here. Overcoming Overwhelm Michael Hyatt posted a helpful list about how he has overcome feeling overwhelmed. I liked his list and I believe he has some positive things to say. His major take-away, though?… Read More »
Last week, I wrote about the commodity of time in our lives. Mainly, I’m interested to explore this further because I live in the middle of a great paradox. Most of the time, I’m running around, doing a million things and getting crazy amounts of things accomplished: running a home, working a part-time job, shopping,… Read More »