LifeWay.com recently did an interview with me and has an article up if you’d like to see it. It’s written by my good friend Grace Clausing. Let me know what you think! 4 Ways You Can Reach Out to Military Wives

Before Cliff left, he gave me an iPod for Christmas and put a couple of dozen songs on it, including Avril Lavigne’s “Keep Holding On.” It’s become our song for this deployment. Thanks to Amy for helping me find a military video to go with it.

This has been an emotional week for my six-year-old, and when it’s an emotional week for your child, it’s an emotional week for Mom too. This week Caleb started swimming lessons. It hasn’t been easy. Caleb is not a daredevil. I’ve never had to worry about him jumping out of trees and breaking legs, or

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I met with some of the ladies in my Wives of Faith group on Friday at McDonald’s. It’s a weekly tradition that we haven’t done probably since school was let out. Summer seems to be busier than the school year, as most moms can probably relate. Anyway, it was a good time to catch up

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If there is one good thing about deployments (I can think of several, but that’s a post for another time), it’s the inspiration they offer for losing weight. What other time in your life, other than maybe your wedding day, do you have enough incentive to go to the gym, watch what you eat and

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Someone told me today that I was a very strong woman. She apparently didn’t hear my conversation last week when I was not much bigger than a crumpled up piece of paper at the bottom of my waste basket. Strength was certainly not what I was feeling at the time. I don’t blame her observation

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As I think about my own husband today who is away from his son on Father’s Day (that’s Ciff and Caleb at Disney Land during Family Weekend before he left for Iraq), I ran across this story about all the dads serving our country today who are away from their kids. The story leads with

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported yesterday that the Army will start doing screenings of about 5,000 IRR reservists. The IRR has been a source of controversy these days, particularly among war critics who accuse the government as using it as a type of “back door draft,” essentially calling people back who no longer want

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I got some sad news last month about a family I wrote about last year for Special Education Today. Daniel Phillips was born with a severe form of cerebral palsy, unable to walk or talk, but he had a huge impact on his family and the people he came in contact with. One of his

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