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Table Talk: Ponderings of a Mother’s Heart by Chris Wills

by Kay | Jan 17, 2013 | ...on family, Purposeful Parenting

Today’s post is a beautiful little something that my sister-in-law wrote while fighting back tears as she watched her college-aged son head back to school from Christmas break. Sometimes when we’re in the midst of parenting, all the...

Perfectly Imperfect

by Kay | Jan 14, 2013 | ...on family, Purposeful Parenting

Thanks DMoms for sharing our moatblog experience … especially since the friend with whom I was lunching was their editor Joslyn Taylor. I’ve just loved getting to know her. And boy did she put some wind in my sails that day. “I probably had said too...

Table Talk – Choosing a Better Christmas by Julie Hildebrand

by Kay | Nov 28, 2012 | ...on family

Today’s Table Talk is by sweet Dallas mom-blogger Julie Hildebrand who offers us some Christmas perspective. Thanks so much for sharing, Julie… and thanks for walking the road with me. -Kay We’ve barely pushed the plate away from Thanksgiving, but the...

A Thank-You Note to My Kids

by Kay | Nov 19, 2012 | ... on life, ...on family

Emily Post might cringe in her grave at all the mannerly blunders that pave my path. Despite the best of intentions, I find myself failing in proper etiquette more often that soaring. It’s not that my mother and grandmother didn’t teach me well… or that Miss Ela...

Table Talk: Words to Live By

by Kay | Apr 25, 2012 | ...on family

Rather than post a piece from one of our many wonderful guest bloggers, I can’t help myself from sharing words from a faithful life that left the world this week. My friend Ann sent me the obituary of “God’s Man” from World Magazine. So much of...

3 Little, but Powerful, Words

by Kay | Mar 23, 2012 | ...on family

There are 3 powerful words that warm my heart when they come my way. When uttered from my mouth, they transform my kids … even though it can take time for them to sink in, really sink in. I’ve caught myself saying them a lot lately, wishing that they would...