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LifestyleLife is a juggling act: mom, wife, employee, friend... if only we could balance it all. The lifestye section is designed to help with some tips through monthly profile stories on veteran moms, advice on finance, faith, adoption, parenting and school choice.
Relationships
The Lasting Gift - Why Did I Marry My Husband?by Katie Newingham As I write this letter, I must confess something to you. My only desire is to give you a lasting gift this Christmas. I want to write something to encourage you, to let you know you are the best parent for your child even on the worst days and that everything you hope for in this life is going to work out. Ye...
Ideas for Family Fun Nightby Courtney A. Buxton, A Work in Progress Now that school is in full swing, our family has made an effort to enjoy regular Family Nights. During the week, we find that our evenings are often rushed, with sports, church activities, meetings ...read more › 
Keeping Dad Involved in Daily Routineby Cathy O’Hara Harrison In women, the nurturing gene is inherent. Most of us feel compelled to care. So when a new child arrives and the “we” that we experience with our spouse or significant other promptly turns into “three,” often times our deep feelings of love shift to ...read more › 
In Her Eyes: A Father's Influenceby Katie Newingham “Going Mach two with your hair on fire,” wasn't just a line made famous in Top Gun, it was my father’s anthem. It took him 20 years to become a fighter pilot, and like the smoke dissipating from an F4’s exhaust into the skyline, my father's dream seemed to ...read more › 
Forty Beads Author Talks About How Token Sex Transformed Her Marriageby Dr. Melissa Nelson Recently a group of my friends were discussing a book called Forty Beads by Carolyn Evans. It is the story of how a new approach to sex - using beads as a kind of token system - transformed the marriage of the author. As the discussion developed, every girl in the group had an opini...read more › 
Bedroom Negotiationsby Katie Newingham My husband and I attended pre-marriage counseling almost ten years ago now. During one of our sessions, the counselor handed us a sheet of paper with ten ways to fight fairly. Of the ten, I use three regularly. When a fight breaks out, I try to use “I feel” statements inste...read more › 
The Woven LifeThe Woven Life While standing in line at a large retail store I heard a little boy say, “Mommy, Mommy, can we get a lighter?” The mom replied, “Oh, you mean to light the candles?” I ...read more › 
How Potty Training Saved My Marriageby Katie Newingham Have you ever noticed similarities between your husband and your toddler? Recently, I was trying to potty train my two and a half year old. She'd been using the miniature port-a-potty regularly with very few accidents for a few weeks and then suddenly she just stopped. I used all the a...read more › 
Three Generations: A Short Story of Strength, Endurance & Hope (Fiction)by Katie Newingham Again she was on her knees, sobbing into her pillow at 3 a.m. so she wouldn’t wake her brother and sister, it had been three months but the pain of losing her father was only heightened by the knowledge of me dating again. ...read more › 
Charlie Who? How Greed Rots the Soulby Katie Newingham Hollywood may idolize celebrity. That makes sense, most of them are profiting off of the towns “stars.” I’m personally sick of the exploitation that goes on surrounding celebrity – building single individuals up only to...read more › 
Romance and the Art of a Grand Gestureby Katie Newingham So when I was 17 a boy wrote me a song. He was performing for a group of people and announced that the next song was written for me. Now I was mostly a tomboy, but in that moment I was a princess, the only girl in the room. Unfortunately for me there were several other gir...read more › 
The giftby Katie Newingham What is it about foil wrapping paper and big red bows that make us giddy like schoolgirls? Boxes of every shape and size sit under trees so delicately wrapped with crisscrossed ribbons and snowflake tags, inviting us, even tempting us, to open them before the big day. We stare as we wa...read more ›
Three Generations: A Short Story of Strength, Endurance & Hope (Fiction) Part 2On My Knees And so I prayed harder and began taking children into my home to make extra money just to get by until the Summer was over. At that point I was planning to return to teaching. With three children, it would be hard to make it on a teacher’s salary ...read more › |
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