How to Be There For a Friend in Need

I picked up the phone, sure needed a friend Hoping to find some perspective and wisdom in pain, on the other end I heard grace and truth, and started to see God confirmed what you said in his Word and then somehow it made sense to me And I was a little more free when...

Using Advanced Decision-Making to Plan Your 2024

It’s common practice over New Year’s to make resolutions and goals for your year. But did you know that most resolutions only last three to four months according to Forbes Health? Mark and I have used advanced decision-making for quite a few years now to help plan out...

5 Practical Truths the Christmas Story Shows Us

Christmas holds a special place in our hearts. We just love the Christmas traditions, music, food, memories, and more that come along with the season of celebrating the birth of Christ! If you’d like to know what some of those traditions are, you can listen in to our...

Need Gift Ideas? Here Are Some of My Favorites From This Year!

Gift-giving doesn’t come easy to all of us. (If that’s you, I am right there with you!) I got to thinking this year, and I realized that I have been sharing some of my favorite things most weeks in my Life on the Edge of Normal newsletter. (If you...

Managing Your Expectations for Holiday Parenting

The excitement of the holidays is hard to contain! Your young children are anxiously waiting to leap out of their beds to open presents on Christmas morning. Your adult children may be traveling home from college or coming to visit from their homes. You may be looking...

3 Perfect Fall Recipes You Should Try

One of my favorite summer activities is gardening! It’s become one of my favorite empty nest hobbies to watch the plants and flowers bloom and grow. They make the perfect backdrop while enjoying summer evenings on our porch. Now that the seasons are changing,...

6 Tips for Launching Your Adult Children

As our kids launch into adulthood and start taking control over their own life decisions, it can be tempting to “open the wisdom floodgates” and try to cram for their entrance into the world. We start thinking of all the things we haven’t taught them yet. Are they...

What I’m Reading Lately

I just love reading! It’s one of my favorite activities to unwind, learn, and remind myself of God’s truth. My Amazon wishlist is full of new book titles I can’t wait to dive into and I’m hard-pressed to leave a bookstore empty-handed when I get the chance to browse...

10 Summer Activities to Do With Your Teen

Is there any better season than summer? It’s one of my favorite times of year because I enjoy gardening and the opportunity to take regular walks outside. Now that I’m an empty-nester, I also love summer because I get to spend extra time with my grandchildren...

How Emotions Might Be Running Your Life

Did you know that the average person has 48 thoughts every minute? If you add that up, you could be thinking over 70,000 thoughts in a day! There is an endless amount of thoughts and emotions that take up space in our brain and impact how we respond to others. This...

Redefining Your Family Priorities: How to Make the Right Sacrifices

Ask any parent and they will tell you all the things they have sacrificed for their newborn, toddler, child, teen, or young adult. When Mark and I were in the thick of parenting, we often sacrificed our time, energy, finances, and more for our family. We still do at...

11 Fire Safety Tips You Need to Know

We love spending time with our grandkids as well as our nieces and nephews. That’s why we plan various outings with them from Grandparents Camp to other small activities. Mark and I can’t get enough of their cute faces and it gives their parents a break. A little...

How I Lowered My Cholesterol Naturally By Almost 200 Points

It is possible to live a healthy lifestyle, and I want to share my journey with you today. In 2013, a breast cancer diagnosis turned my world upside down. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation did a number on my body. So when I got to the other side of my treatment, I...