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Top 5 Ways to Become a Foolish Mom

No one starts out their parenting journey determined to make a foolish mess out of things. But just for fun, what if we did? What would it look like to strive to become a foolish mom? Here are the top 5 ways to become a foolish mom on this April Fools’ Day: Click To Tweet Give no thought to eternity. Live each day without considering tomorrow. Refuse to think about your eternal soul which will give an account of your life. Live for today…take as much as you can from everyone around you NOW. Ignore the verse, “Look carefully then …

Are You Sinking in the Sticky Mud of Porn?

“It started by watching a newscast on 50 Shades of Grey…then I bought the book…now my mind is a mess and my marriage is a wreck,” whispered a sweet young mom in tears as her eyes pleaded with me for help. It started by watching a newscast on 50 Shades of Grey… Click To Tweet We hear about porn prevailing over men and ruining their lives and marriages. But what about women who are sinking in the sticky mud of porn? Where do women start…the ones in tears who regularly approach me after I speak…looking for help? Porn is no-longer …

ONE Thing that Will Make Your Marriage Strong

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” Genesis 2:24 (NKJV) How would you describe your marriage? Marriage can be tough. I know! My man and I have weathered some pretty tough times ourselves… so I get it when women tell me marriage is hard. But could it be that we are making marriage much more difficult than it needs to be? Could it be that we are making marriage much more difficult than it needs to be? Click To Tweet One of the things I realized …

2 Tips for a Great Valentine’s Day

Have you ever hoped to have a perfectly wonderful day, date, or evening; then ruined it by something you did or said? It’s a sickening feeling. You wish you could have a do-over. But that’s just in movies. We canNOT go back. We canNOT not see things we’ve seen or heard words we’ve heard. So today, make plans to not ruin your day. Take seriously the following two tips: 1. DO Remember how much Jesus loves you & what real love is. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does …

Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

Valentine’s Day. It can be a mix up of emotions for many of us, especially if we end up looking for love in all the wrong places. You know, the love we read about in romance novels or on the Hallmark channel. Let’s face it, we’ve bought into the hype that Valentine’s day is the one day of the year that we go over the top to show our love for that special someone in our life. You know how it goes, it’s the day where we spend more than we should and stress about getting everything “just right”. For …

104 Date Night Ideas instead of 50 Shades of Gray

My mother thought if she loved my father enough, he would change. He didn’t. Instead, I watched my father love my mother to the best of his broken abilities. I watched my mother become less of a woman, and I watched my heart break into millions of little pieces as my mother would clean up the glass from one of my Dad’s anger fits or hold an ice pack to a broken nose; deep down I knew this wasn’t real love or healthy. Flash forward fifteen years later. I am raising two girls and one precious boy. My fifteen year old …

Four Foundations for a Happy Marriage

I think it’s time to really just get real about marriage. Marriage isn’t always easy and you don’t always like each other. But there are four things that can help you have an amazing marriage no matter how tough things may get. So…in light of the upcoming “Holiday of Love” I thought I’d share some thoughts on love and marriage in a rather exposed, up-close and personal kind of way. My husband is my best friend. But it hasn’t always been this way. However, now…after 28 years, I can say we are more in love now than the day we said “I …

5 Things I Wish My Mom Had Told Me

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 1:8 NIV Sweet mamas, oh how I wish we could sit down over a cuppa coffee and talk through these together. I don’t have all the answers, but if you’ll let me, then I’d love to share with you 5 of the things that I wish my mom had told me when I first got married and started having kids. My “babies” are now almost 21 and 19. By all accounts they are “adults” and so I’m coming to sit alongside you as a mama …

Five Tips for Moms of Flower Girls and Ring Bearers

Many people get a chuckle out of the flower girls and ring bearers at weddings. I have been to many weddings where the ring bearer would start saying something silly or the flower girls would dump out all their petals right at the end of the aisle. They always look darling in their nice outfits and they are a sweet reminder of how Jesus loves us. But, if you’ve ever been the mother of a flower girl or ring bearer, you know how rewarding and difficult it is to have your children in a wedding. My brother recently got married …

15 Ways to Encourage Your Man

So many changes going on in the Riggleman household and one of them is the way God is working on my heart about my husband. You see, that’s because I haven’t always been the best wife. I haven’t always been the best wife. Click To Tweet When we first married, I wasn’t a follower of Christ and I was raised to believe a woman needed to be strong, fierce, and independent of her man–if she had one. My parents broken marriage left example after example of reasons I thought I needed to be a modern woman with my own ideas and …

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