I want juice! Mommy please, please, please can I have juice…? (After you’ve said no for the 10th time) I have to have juice or I can’t get up! (After throwing themselves in the aisle of the grocery store) You HAVE to get me juice. I don’t want water, I want JUICE! I don’t want that kind of juice! I don’t want juice in that glass. I need more juice. I won’t stop crying till you get me juice. You’re not a nice mommy if you don’t get me juice. You’re chuckling because you’ve resonated with these “demands” and manipulative …
The Magnet Syndrome!
My husband is constantly coming up to me asking, “What are you doing?” He said he can’t stay away—he’s drawn to me like a magnet.—Mariann Dear God, When we were first married, Dave literally followed me around the house wanting to do everything with me. He didn’t have any friends or interests beside his job, golf, and me. We quickly remedied that dilemma by finding him friends, serving at church, and starting guitar lessons—the guitar eventually fell by the wayside. Now that he’s retired and home 24/7, I’m reliving those early years: it seems like every time I turn around, …
Dear God, He’s Home!
Today I birthed a baby—no not a real baby—but my seventeenth book, Dear God, He’s Home! A Woman’s Guide to Her Stay-at-Home Man, releases March 5th and the process of writing and getting a book published usually takes longer than 9 months and the labor pains go on and on…. But just like when you look into the face of your beautiful baby for the first time, when my “baby” arrived on my doorstep and I held it in my hands, all the stress of long writing days, late nights, deadlines, edits, selecting a cover and a name all faded …