Love and encouragement from an imperfect mom and her fun teen daughters. We welcome you to live life with us.
* this post follows 2 others on personality (“No favorite child” and “4 Greek Temperaments”) and builds on those 2 posts. Love Language (love preference) is another area where gals differ from one another (and from men). When we learn how people express their love differently, we can better meet their needs and have … Read more Love Languages: love preferences
I am so excited about my success at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), that I decided this news was worth sharing with others: I succeeded in quickly and easily getting my California “Real ID” done! I suspect what worked for me would also work for gals in all of the 50 US states … Read more DMV Real ID Advice and Good News
* this post follows one on personality (“No favorite child”) and builds on what I discussed there. The Greeks believed our bodily fluids influenced our temperaments. While we now know bodily fluids do not influence our temperaments, these four styles are another way for a person to see how she is like others or … Read more Four Greek temperaments
This will my very first post with links to Affiliates. These are honorable companies I trust, and they offer products I actually use. If you click on the link to the product, you will go the website of the company that sells this product. If you purchase it, you pay the same price as you … Read more Menopause Relief
Each of my daughters asks me to say, “You are my favorite child,” and I always say, “No, I can’t have a favorite child. My sense of mercy is so strong, if I thought I preferred one of you, I would feel so sad for the neglected child, I would have to love her just … Read more No Favorite Child: Intro to personalities and temperament
I want to share a true story about a mom who struggled to love her child. In fact, she is not the only mother I have met who struggles to love a child who is very different from her. My friend and I visited a pastor’s wife who was devoted to the Lord and her … Read more Difficult Person or Different Personality?
I’m beginning this post addressing you wonderful young gals, but moms and all you friends of the younger gals (sisters, aunts, grandmas and friends), please read this too, and I will also address you near the end of this post. Satan has used an ancient method of separating parents from children (even adult children), and … Read more When Satan tries to separate children from Parents
As I grew in my Christian faith, I was excited to make God’s word come alive in my life, and then I could prayerfully put on the Lord’s armor every day. Mostly I dealt with the defensive armor in keeping myself strong in the Lord. Gradually I also began to embrace the power of this … Read more God’s Armor
As I read a verse from the amplified Bible, without my reading glasses, I mistook “forget” for “forgive,” but my mistake reminded me of a truth about bringing our pain to God. How can we heal and forgive ourselves of what we forget or deny we suffered? Here is the amplified verse: “Jesus…said to them, … Read more Deny yourself or forgive yourself?
Why does society demand so much from gals–tweens to mature women? A person might even think the church demands perfection, since Matthew 5:48 says, “Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” First, let’s clarify the meaning of that verse. In the original language the word “perfect,” would also be translated, “complete not lacking, … Read more Not Perfect? Not So Fast