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Easter Resurrection Cookies

Easter Resurrection Cookies

By Marty Walden · 10 Comments

Easter Resurrection Cookies are a wonderful hands-on way to teach children about the Easter story! As a former homeschooling mama of 23 years, I always looked for ways to teach my kids faith combined with teachable activities. One of my very favorites was this hands on recipe for Easter Resurrection Cookies. Although the night before Easter usually meant curling little… Read More

Filed Under: desserts, Easter, Easy Recipes, faith, family, homeschooling, Popular Posts

What No One Tells You About Self Care

What No One Tells You About Self Care

By Marty Walden · 14 Comments

What is self care anyway? These 5 practices could save your life if you’re burned out! Sometimes you stumble into your calling and ministry. Often you choose a path in life but it’s not what you expected or wanted. Other times life happens TO you and you just do the best you can with what you’re given. In the last… Read More

Filed Under: faith, Lifestyle

Do You Love Your Adopted Child as Much as Your Biological One?

Do You Love Your Adopted Child as Much as Your Biological One?

By Marty Walden · 24 Comments

In this heart wrenching post, a bio and adoptive mom answers every parent’s question. Do you love your adopted child as much as your biological one? Recently on a Facebook post I received the following comment. I find it difficult to get past the distinctions in your children: my daughter, my grandson (those ones are really yours), my adopted daughter,… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting adult children, RAD, Reactive Attachment Disorder Tagged With: adoption, Family, Parenting

Amazing Day When Grief Turns to Joy!

Amazing Day When Grief Turns to Joy!

By Marty Walden · 5 Comments

Do you know the feeling when  you realize you’re in the middle of a moment that is a lifetime coming and the fulfillment of seeds planted and watered? A few Sundays ago I experienced just that moment when grief turns to joy!   My niece Jennifer was born to my sister when I was 18 years old. Brenda was such… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Grief

What I Really Want for Mother’s Day This Year

What I Really Want for Mother’s Day This Year

By Marty Walden · 5 Comments

Maybe this Mother’s Day you’re feeling a little sentimental like me, or searching for a purpose in those sleepless nights and endless days of diapers and tantrums. Could it be that the teenage years are wearing thin and you’re wondering if anything you’re doing really matters?  Totally unprepared for motherhood 27 years ago, I dove in and have been swimming upstream… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting, parenting adult children Tagged With: adoption, Faith, Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting, Reactive Attachment Disorder

Finding Purpose in Life and Work

Finding Purpose in Life and Work

By Marty Walden · 13 Comments

I had high goals for the start of this new year, and they had nothing to do with eating healthy and exercising! (Actually they did but that’s not the topic of this post!) In my last post I shared some of the struggles that December brought for me. In my usual transparency I wrote about grief and its effect on… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Lifestyle, Marty's Musings

Living with Grief and Heartbreak

Living with Grief and Heartbreak

By Marty Walden · 11 Comments

January is off to a quiet start here on the blog, partially with intentionality and partially completely out of my hands. When I scheduled my carpal tunnel surgery for Jan. 5 I knew it would be hard to do a lot of my daily tasks, including computer work, which was fine because I wanted to spend some time focusing on my… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Grief, Lifestyle, parenting, Reactive Attachment Disorder

I Didn’t Choose to be a Pastors Wife

I Didn’t Choose to be a Pastors Wife

By Marty Walden · 5 Comments

As I was teaching my children to write during my many years as a homeschooling mom, I never dreamed that one day at least one of my kids would enjoy writing like her mom and would wield the pen as a mighty sword. Rachel is so much like me with the way her writing comes from a well of deep emotions…. Read More

Filed Under: faith, marriage, parenting adult children

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Surgery and Word for 2016

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Surgery and Word for 2016

By Marty Walden · 13 Comments

Last year at this time my husband had just gone through two surgeries; one hernia repair and one rotator cuff repair. Little did we know that 2015 would hold some of our greatest challenges ever. God knew better than to give me a glimpse because I would have pulled the covers over my head and stayed there until 2016! 2016 is… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family

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