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 | Nov 10, 2012 | Faith
It’s been an honor to watch my friend, Lou Anne Hostetler, raise her family. While her firstborn, Jeffrey, was very young, she and her husband found out he has cerebral palsy. This past spring, Jeffrey graduated from high school. I have watched Lou Anne pour...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Oct 29, 2012 | Faith
← Risky Business OCTOBER 29, 2012 · 12:29 AM | EDIT ↓ Jump to Comments The Weird Family The ideal: Family devotions, children all sitting around very well-behaved, intently listening to Father share his wisdom and insight from God’s Word. Training up children just...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Oct 22, 2012 | Faith
Being a woman can have the status of “Stolen Identity.” It’s safe to say I’ve had an identity crisis ever since becoming a wife and parent, because: I’ve been a “stay at home mom” during the mommy-wars of the 1990’s,...
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...
