A necessary part of January, along with looking ahead to the new year, is looking back at the one fading away. With that in mind, here are YOUR ten favorite This Side of Heaven posts from 2016. Thank you for joining me here!
10. To all my mom friends who cry on the first day of school.
What if you really could keep your children home? Not just to fulfill your dreams, but to fulfill theirs, too?
9. What my son with apraxia has taught me
8. Dear mom of a baby in Heaven
As part of our Naomi's Circle ministry, as well as my involvement with Hannah's Prayer, I meet a lot of women who are just beginning the journey of Loss. This is my heart for them and what drives my ministry. - a post from 2014
7. Doing CC Cycle 2 at home in the primary years
Here is what we have found to be true over the last three years and how we anticipate supplementing the Foundations curriculum at home.
6. The first "R" of homeschooling: Redemption
The first R of our homeschool day is "Redemption", or God's redemptive story as revealed in the Scriptures.
5. What the Bible says about modesty
What DOES the Bible teach specifically about modesty? What I found out was both surprising and encouraging.
4. A prayer for my son with apraxia
At nearly three years of age, my son struggles with childhood apraxia of speech, a motor speech disorder in which the brain has trouble planning movements of the different parts of the mouth and coordinating the muscle movements that are needed for speech. A child knows what he wants to say, but cannot figure out how to say it. With intense speech therapy, we are hopeful that it will be mostly resolved before he finishes elementary school, but no parent wants to see their child struggle with something so basic for so long. This is my prayer for him. (2014)
3. Stuck in Saturday
There are no "red letter words" today, because on Saturday, Jesus was in the tomb. He said nothing. And I am sure the silence was deafening for those who loved Him. With that in mind, I am sharing an article I wrote several years ago, hoping that it will continue to encourage others, especially those "stuck in Saturday". (original post from 2011)
2. What apraxia really is
For the last year, our family has been learning a great deal about childhood apraxia of speech, a motor-oral disorder in which a child knows what he or she wants to say, but there is a disconnect and the brain can't get the mouth to move in such a way that the right sounds and words come out. It is the working diagnosis for our son, and I find myself giving the clinical definition a lot to help other people understand what he struggles with and that no, he is not just not talking for the fun of it and he is actually not going to just start spouting off full-length sentences someday. But the clinical definition does not come close to what apraxia is in our life. Because this is what it really is. (2014)
1. 20 things that babyloss parents do that feel crazy but aren't
For a long time in 2009, I felt like I was going crazy. Over the course of the year, we had lost two babies during pregnancy, Naomi and Kyria... I found myself behaving and thinking differently than I had in the past, and differently than most people around me. It wasn't until I started talking with other parents who had lost children that I realized that I wasn't going crazy. The things I was doing were NOT evidence of unhealthy grief or lack of recovery or an inability to move forward. Instead, they were part of my new normal, common to most other parents who had lost a baby, and most of them are true for me even five years later. (2015)
RSS Feed
