by Brenda L. Yoder | Nov 19, 2013 | Parenting
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,...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Jan 18, 2013 | Faith
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...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Dec 8, 2012 | Faith
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...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Oct 31, 2012 | Faith
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...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Oct 10, 2012 | Faith
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...