The Mom I Want to Be: Rising Above Your Past to Give Your Kids a Great Future, by T. Suzanne Eller (Harvest House 2006) Author and mom of three, T. Suzanne Eller, takes readers on a journey exploring her painful past as the daughter of a single mom who survived abuse and years of depression. [...]
Archive for April, 2008
The Mom I Want To Be: Rising Above Your Past To Give Your Kids A Great Future
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Sweet Journeys
Saturday, April 26th, 2008How many flowers are you able to name? I recognize common flowers like roses, tulips, mums, violets, lilies, and daffodils, but if you propped me behind the microphone on a game show and drilled me with floral flashcards, my brain would short-circuit. Botanists claim that they’ve documented more than 270,000 different species of flowers. That’s [...]
Fluffing the Nest This Spring
Saturday, April 26th, 2008There is just something about the arrival of spring that makes most of us want to fluff our nests! We’ve been sitting inside all winter feeling snug as a bug, when suddenly the sun shines through our dirty windows to reveal dust we didn’t even know we had! Yikes! Our little nests need some attention. [...]
Feathers Plucked for a Nest
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Mother ducks pick feathers from their chests to line their nests Houses may be bought, built, or borrowed. But homes can only be made, and that with ourselves. Or so the ducks told me. They told me without a sound, just simply as they preened and nestled, oil on canvas. The children press in close [...]
Radio Interview: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Saturday, April 26th, 2008There’s never a dull moment in the Y’Barbo household! From hockey and cheer mom to publicist to bestselling author, Kathleen Y’Barbo somehow manages to do it all—and do it well. While wearing her publicist’s hat, Kathleen has secured interviews with radio, television, and print media for clients at NavPress, Hatchette, Integrity, Barbour Publishing, and Broadman [...]
Springime Promise
Saturday, April 26th, 2008As I am writing this column about springtime, a blizzard is swirling, hurling snow and wind against my warm and snug house. Spring seems like such a long way off. But its promises beckon me to contemplate the next season–the promise of new birth, of an awakening of the earth from the dead of winter [...]
Becoming a Foster Mother
Saturday, April 26th, 2008I read your article from “Broward Family Life,” and was very enlightened. I grew up watching you on “Full House,” and now my daughter Nicole, who is 8, is watching you too. She has every season. How funny is that? In the article I read that you are involved with 4 Kids of South Florida. [...]
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Friday, April 25th, 2008Do you feel it? Spring is in the air! For some of you I wish I could say all your cold weather is gone, but then I would have to follow up with an “April Fools.” Soon, very soon, it will be summer. Unless you are like me and live in sunny Florida where winter [...]
Freedom to Embrace Change
Friday, April 25th, 2008We recently had a few inches of snow here in the Dallas area, reminding us that winter is not quite over and yet spring is knocking at the door. The “snow” came and went in a matter of a few hours, very unlike the snow I’d been accustomed to seeing in March and early April [...]
Embrace the Season!
Friday, April 25th, 2008And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. Genesis 40:10b (NAS) As winter memories fade we begin to see new life springing forth everywhere we look. Tender shoots once again push their way through soil as the sun’s warm beams beckon. The trees look ready to burst into [...]