Movie Review: Gimme Shelter

Duncan, Sarah (our 15 year old daughter) and I went to see a preview showing of this movie. About the Movie: Based on a true story, Gimme Shelter centers on pregnant teenager Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens) who flees her drug-ridden mother (Rosario...

The Day My Heart Broke

OK, to be straight, it was not my heart- it was my blood pressure, whatever controls that thing. It broke. It broke several weeks before my husband and daughter left to go to Kenya on a 21 day mission trip. My indicator: I stopped wanting to eat much or sleep much,...

Desperate by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson: Chapter 7

Sacrifice in the Mundane (On selfishness) Wait a minute: Did this book for grown-up mothers actually include a chapter on SELFISHNESS.  Surely not.  Anytime I tell someone I have six children, they declare how self-less I must be.  They tell me what a high calling...

Sisters Tea Parlor- Mother/Daughter Date

For years my husband did father-daughter dates, as well as Father-son Guys’ nights out. Usually I did not do these because I was with the children all day, every day and it seemed like they had enough of mama time. But in the teen years, this couldn’t be...

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