We are THAT Family
Hi there, world changer. I’m glad you’re here. I hope my words encourage you as a wife and mom and remind you that you’re not alone in your yes to God. It’s okay to be real and a little irreverent and mostly vulnerable in this safe space. Deep down, I think there’s a little bit of that family in all of us.
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I’m wild about sweet tea and I have a thing for globes and maps. I love color and words and my house has a lot of both. I’m parenting teens and a tween with my husband slash best friend of more than 20 years. I’m the founder of Mercy House and Fair Trade Friday and sometimes I write books. I love traveling and experiencing new cultures, trying new foods, and I’m a big fan of all things fair trade. I share my broken and beautiful story in my memoir, Rhinestone Jesus, and I share how it’s changed the way we parent in Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World. My life is messy and redeemed and I’m grateful for the chance to live it.
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This year, I'm celebrating 25 years of marriage. And our kids remind us....that's a very long time, which must make us very old. Watch it, young Jedi. We've had our good days and bad, our amazing seasons and the ones we where we barely made it, but here we are, committed to the end. We recently ... Read More
Guest post by Janel Breitenstein For the last year, my 12-year-old daughter has revealed her dream to become a movie director, or at least a screenwriter. I admit raising my mental eyebrows a bit at this one, for the sheer sake of the competition for jobs like this. There’s gotta be, what? ... Read More
How about that Fall Collection at Mercy House Global? (happy tears) Last week, we trekked back to the mountains where we spent our sabbatical last summer. As I slept in the same bed and hiked the same trails and drank my morning coffee on the same back porch, I was flooded with ... Read More
I will never forget seeing my first African sunset ten years ago. The year-round fall colors of dusk highlighted the beauty and the heartbreak of a breathtaking, broken place. My normal, right along with my heart, split in two and if it weren't for hope, I wouldn't have returned home from ... Read More
