Dear Christian parents of teenagers, If you don’t know me, let me introduce myself. I’m Rachelle. I am a mom to 3 boys (well, currently 5 boys and a girl because I am a foster mom as well.) My two oldest are my biological boys and are 18 and almost 17. My adopted son just turned 10. I am a… View Post
I remember several years ago, before everyone and their mom had a blog, finding a particular blog and getting into reading it. It was a mom of 3 or 4 kids (I don’t even remember) and it was the first time I had really seen a lot of straight forward, blunt honesty in print. There was a lot of talk… View Post
Fostering. It’s kind of a whole different world, and one that you may not know a lot about if you’ve never been in it. It may not make any sense at all to some people, it may be the kind of thing you’ve always wanted to do but have just never have yet, or you may be a foster parent… View Post
Raw. It’s a word that was thrown around a lot in the last several years in several women’s events that I attended. I never really liked the word, because who likes to think about something raw? It either reminds me of a raw piece of salmonella-filled chicken? Or like a scraped knee that is all bloody and gross. Either way,… View Post
When things happen that just don’t make sense, I think the very “Christian” thing to do is to put a Bible-verse-bandaid on it and hope that the bleeding stops. But as a parent, I think it is a bad idea to cover up feelings and emotions with Bible verses. I think it is a wise thing to heal feelings and… View Post