Finding Calm by Jennifer Barnes Maggio

Finding Calm by Jennifer Barnes Maggio

I’m excited to help launch Choose Now team member Jennifer Barnes Maggio’s new book for single parents! Eighteen years ago, I gazed into the eyes of my unbelievably beautiful first-born. I sat in the hospital room alone. It was the first of many nights,...
Friday’s Post: A Mother’s Heart

Friday’s Post: A Mother’s Heart

Friday’s Post: A Mother’s Heart I’m posting today at Not Alone mom on a Mother’s Heart.  What a privilege to be a contributor to this ministry to mothers who need to know they are not alone!  Come and join Krissy and the rest of the Not Alone...
How To’s for Releasing a Child

How To’s for Releasing a Child

Today is one of the lasts of the lasts. I celebrated my youngest’ thirteenth birthday. One of the milestones of lasts. The last child to leave childhood. The last child to become a teenager. I was teaching child development and parenting to freshman girls when...
Power of the Paper Plate

Power of the Paper Plate

A couple of years ago, after spending two weeks as a camp counselor, my daughter came home with stories about mentoring 5th grade girls.  While I was making dinner, she sat at the kitchen table with two paper plates. “Mom, have you ever heard of putting paper...
On Raising Girls

On Raising Girls

My one and only daughter is coming home tomorrow. She’s twenty-one. Not a child. Every mother knows in her heart, that adult child is still a toddler with fingers curled around hers. As my Firstborn comes home, well seasoned to college life, my heart weeps with...

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