From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Borrowed from life in pike road.

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Your children are about to make the leap from recreational team sports to competitive team sports.  What’s the difference? Recreational sports are usually organized by your community, YMCA, or church.  There are no tryouts, and everyone gets to play in every game.  Competitive sports are run by schools or club teams.  During tryouts coaches choose [...]

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When I was pregnant with my first child and the due date got closer and closer, I would wake up every morning and think, “Today is the day! I will have her today!” The day would go by, and as every hour ticked off the clock and nothing happened, I would get less and less [...]

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This Saturday 10 year-old Timothy Norris will honor the memory of his dear friend Tucker Beam as he runs the Relay for Life.  Here is the link to donate to Timothy’s team – Team Tucker Beam.  This is a very touching repost from early March we wanted to share with you again. Preface: I am [...]

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My Mother’s 8 Facebook Rules

by Lisa on April 14, 2010

Growing up we never had a computer in our home.  My first e-mail address was given to me at Samford University in the early 90′s, but I had no idea what to do with it.  If there had been such a thing as Facebook, my mother’s rules would have looked something like this. My Mother’s [...]

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Do You Let Your Kids Win?

by Nif on April 12, 2010

The picture above is from a miniature golf outing that our family had during Spring Break last month. (We were in Gulf Shores, Alabama, but notice the sweatshirts and warm clothes!) I posted this picture to my Facebook page along with the comment that I had won the golf game (for Hubs’ sake, because he [...]

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*On Casual Fridays, we make recommendations about books, websites, movies, etc. We would love to hear your Casual Friday recommendations, too. Have you ever felt frustrated when clothes shopping for your kids?  Too short, too tight, too revealing?  Well, you’re not alone.  I can’t believe some of the clothes that walk through the door of [...]

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Strong Mothers welcomes guest blogger Amy Fenton Lee. It’s that time of year – prom dresses and swim suits.  Imperfections become obsessions and the pressure to look photo-shop perfect is almost unbearable.  It is tough to instill a “character counts” mindset in our children when they are surrounded by the societal message “looks matter”. Unfortunately and often unknowingly, we (adults) [...]

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Wordless Wednesday 4/7/10

by Lisa on April 7, 2010

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