Summer Time with Teens and Tweens

Summer Time with Teens and Tweens    By: Lois Breit Summer has begun and your teens and tweens are at home, but you are not!  This season adds stress to all working mothers.  When your tween has out-grown child care, your fear-mometer levels...

Healing Our Grief

After you lose someone, you may wonder if life will ever be the same again. Will I ever smile again? Will I ever enjoy life again?  Grief is like peeling an onion – everyone does it a little differently, but we all cry a lot. Grief takes work, hard work. It...

Raising Healthy Children

Growing up healthy is something that we all want for our children.  Taking healthy steps along the way will help ensure that process is successful.  Do you remember the phrase “Garbage in, garbage out”?  When you consider that we are what we...

God’s Will?

In the winter of 1975, I lived in the small town of Huxley, Iowa.  That winter we got a generous amount of snow.  My older brother Jerry, with the help of my sister Janni, built a snow fort in the back yard where he tunneled through the snow drifts, with...

Ready, Set, Goals!

Lose weight!  Stop smoking!  Join a health club!  But most of our best intentions are forgotten within days.  Then it’s back to that let-down feeling of having failed again. There is a big difference between making resolutions and prayerfully arriving at God-inspired...