Follow my blog with Bloglovin I couldn’t help but share this post a senior friend of Trevor’s posted on Facebook. We all know how our society has become so sexually promiscuous. When it’s time for my second and third child to get married, I want them to have someone to choose from who has saved themselves for marriage. I’m not belittling those who have already chosen to have sex, and there is a very real concept called “reclaimed virginity.” It’s {Read More}
Letting it Go~ The Power of Forgiveness
26 September, 2014 by 2 Comments
I promise I haven’t abandoned you. I’ve just come to the realization that writing regularly on a blog and writing a book while having a job and the responsibility of a family is just about impossible for me. But in teaching the 10th grade girls small group at church, we are doing a series called “Letting it Go” about the importance of forgiveness. So I’m sharing the information with you that we are studying on Sunday nights. This is a {Read More}
Facebook Friday~Free Timeline Cover…”One Hundred Years From Now…”
27 September, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When I was in Prague, we went to a little town outside of Prague called Lidice. It was a small village of around 500 people or so when Hitler decided to make an example of it to show his power and kill everyone in the village, including 80 children. This statue was truly amazing…words really cannot describe the feeling standing at this statue looking at the detail and expression in the faces of these children who were robbed their {Read More}
Happy Birthday to my Marlee-girl~My first letter to you…
10 June, 2013 by 2 Comments
Wow Marlee…double digits! Ten…10…years old! So now it’s your turn for me to post your first letter. I posted Miranda and Trevor’s on their birthdays. I wrote Miranda’s letter when she was 3 weeks old, Trevor’s when he was almost a year old, and you—my dear third child—were almost 15 months! But you do have a letter, and just like your brother and sister, you do have a completed baby book. Many third children can’t say that! You have undoubtedly been my sweetest {Read More}
Seven {Unconventional} Tips to Raising Awesome Kids
2 June, 2013 by 6 Comments
Okay. If I do say so myself, we have some awesome kids. But I think we are often judged for some of our parenting techniques. When my 16-year-old calls me to ask me if her boyfriend can come in the house even though we aren’t home yet, I think we are doing something right. When my 13-year-old son’s teacher pulls me aside to tell me that my son will make some girl a great husband someday, I wonder what he {Read More}
A Million Ways
12 May, 2013 by 2 Comments
My life has been so busy these last few weeks I’ve had a hard time just posting twice a week, and on Fridays it’s just a five minute post! But I can’t let mother’s day go by without a quick post for my mom. Among many other things, she’s one of my biggest fans! I could not have made it thus far in life without her. Besides the fact that she did bring me into this world, and probably wanted {Read More}
Happy Birthday to My Miranda~ {My Very First Letter to You}
7 April, 2013 by 10 Comments
Today is my Miranda’s 19th birthday! How time has flown and what a sweet and oh-so-sassy young lady you have become! I couldn’t be a prouder mom (except maybe if you kept your room a little cleaner)
“Change your thoughts and you change your world”~Norman Vincent Peale
31 December, 2012 by 22 Comments
One of the first non-fiction books I ever read was The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. I was in my first year of college at Clemson University, and I was hopelessly homesick. My mom put everything into my hands she could to help me through that first semester at Clemson, and that book was part of the package. It’s a shame wisdom comes with age, but I’m sure it’s all part of God’s plan. That’s one of those {Read More}
Happy Birthday My Trevor~My very first letter to you…
30 December, 2012 by 2 Comments
Today we are celebrating Trevor’s 14th birthday. When each of my children were born, I carefully and meticulously chose their baby book and wrote them each their own lullaby. I kept a journal for each one, recording funny, sweet, and sad stories about each one. All of my children love to hear stories from when David and I were little, but there are so many we can’t remember. Hopefully, by journaling (and now blogging), my grandchildren (that sounds really weird {Read More}
A Little Beachy Goodness
29 July, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Our marriage verse. Our life verse. Has it always been easy? No. Have we served none the less? Yes. When I ponder our lives and see where we are now, the choice was always clear. We will serve the Lord. And he has rewarded us abundantly. Enjoy a little beachy goodness from our vacation 😉 The fancy… and the fun… Hope you enjoyed the… From my heart, Celeste
Tip to a Happier You in 2012~I’ve been kidnapped!
15 July, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Well, here it is Saturday evening, and I haven’t posted my {tip to a happier you} for today yet. But I have a good excuse: I’ve been kidnapped and taken to Tree Hill, North Carolina! I’ve been shot in the chest, almost drowned, gotten arrested for beating up an abusive father, given birth early to twins that I wasn’t supposed to be able to get pregnant with only to have my husband forget and leave one of them in the car, been {Read More}
Speaking her love language
21 June, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I am so blessed to have great kids—all three of them. But I often have people ask, “What in the world did you do to have such a great teenager?” She has her values in place, she is a leader rather than a follower, and she loves Jesus. Now is she a slob? Yes. Do I have to stay on her all the time to get her chores done? Yes. Could she screw up at any given moment? Yes. But {Read More}
Tips to a Happier You in 2012~Have a Happy Mother’s Day!
12 May, 2012 by 5 Comments
To all of you who are mothers, Happy Mother’s Day! To all of you who are not biological mothers, you have the opportunity to be a mother to someone. All it takes is love…unconditional love. Every child has a love language, and all three of my children get their love tanks filled with my undivided time and attention. So this mother’s day, whether you are a child spending time with your mother, or a mother spending time with your child(ren), {Read More}
Tips to a Happier You in 2012~Learning What’s Urgent vs. What’s Important
5 May, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This morning I heard a poem on WLFJ that one of the morning hosts wrote, and once again found my self in tears driving down the road. The older I get, the sappier I get. But anyway, it really goes well to illustrate my {tip to a happier you} today: The Letting Go Test By Leslie Nease Nine months of growth inside of my womb And in what seemed like an instant, she was there in the room My heart {Read More}
