Tapestry Conference 2015–Back to Basics Unconditional Love and the Heart of a Pursuing Parent Reading this title may have led you to the conclusion that this is a session about how we should love our children unconditionally when they are acting ugly. Not exactly. Rather, this is a message about how God the Father loves us unconditionally when we are acting ugly. → ...
For most parents, back to school season is met with a mixture of sadness, regret, apprehension, and joy. This week, our daughters, adopted ten years ago, are getting ready to head to fifth and ninth grades. I am eager for school to begin, but I am sad summer is over, and I regret those things we didn’t do, but OH YEAH! I’m so excited they are heading back to school! One of my jobs as my kids’ mom, is to advocate my...
In the last days of summer, as we turn our focus to school and schedules…..I find myself thinking of something else…self care. All summer long, we moms and dads have been driving kids around to camps and events and play dates. We have planned for and implemented vacations which are often not so relaxing for the parents. We have enjoyed our kids and the longer days of summer……and some of us are tired. → ...
Changing What we bring to the parent-child relationship – in terms of your own history, motivations, and expectations – matters just as much as our children’s histories, abilities, needs, and challenges. In order to help our children build trust, heal, and grow, we need to focus on our past, present, and future. By making sense of our past and being realistic about the future, we can be freed to be fully present in each and every moment to help...
Richard and Kimberly Wheeler Daughter: Maliah Joy Wheeler. 4 months old. Born on November 10, 2015. Church: Covenant Life Church, Branson, Missouri We are so grateful for the ministry of Katelyn’s Fund. When my husband and I started the adoption process in February of 2015, we honestly didn’t know how we would pay for our adoption, but we knew this was the direction the Lord was leading us to build our family. → ...
This is a photo of the Royal Family Kids Camp staff for 2016 in our area. 74 of them, I think, gathered together a week ago to go lead a camp for about 38 kids in foster care. My 16 year old daughter Claire is in there somewhere. ( We missed her this week.) → ...
Tapestry Conference 2015–Back to Basics Connecting Healthy relationships require a strong foundation of connection. Our relationships with our children are no different. We need to understand how to keep connection as our goal – in the good times and the not-so-good times. Even when we need to correct our children we also have an opportunity to connect with them. It takes practice for sure, but as we focus on connection and make it our goal in each and every situation,...
I have a kiddo who is heading out tomorrow for a week-long camp experience. She is a “guide-in-training” for a foster care camp. She’s still technically a minor (even though her soul is so, so old) so she cannot do the official guide or other roles. She is a helper. For now, she’s ok with that. She is only 16. She went to training today and tomorrow morning she will get commissioned at church and pack up with 70-ish other...
We need community and we need connection. We all do. We hope that in this coming year the Lord deepens both community and connections.
The support team has been asking the Lord how we can best walk beside, help, and encourage families as we walk through the hard stuff of parenting our children from hard places. We are so excited to be able to give parents some more tools for their toolbox and to grow deeper community this year.
The other night my 4 1/2 year old daughter, Hadassah, got her beautifully tight curly hair braided. As I sat on our couch holding her as she cried and begged us to stop, I began thinking. As I reflected on how those 2 hours went down I thought about the parallels of this braiding experience with the job of disciplining my children. Let me fill you in on how the night played out. Per my value in having lots of wonderful...
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