Nichole said something in response to a past post that I think quite often,
“We (youth pastors wives) feel guilty about wanting time with our husbands because somehow it is unspiritual or not right if time with him takes away time from church. Ugh. We sacrifice A LOT of time. I am envious of other [...]

I just was paralyzed for 20 minutes and was forced to watch The Home Shopping Network! I sat down to feed my baby and somehow the remote changed the channel to HSN. I have this crazy neck pain and I can’t move my right arm at the moment, and I couldn’t really unpainfully rotate [...]

I love the encouragement and wisdom you guys share with one another on this blog. I know that am not the only one who has thoughts and feelings about youth ministry. Diana shared in response to a post and I thought it was packed with great wisdom and thoughtfulness….
Sometimes I just want to take [...]

Yesterday I saw, what I thought, was very funny. I hope no one is offended but gets a little giggle from this.
I was at a baby botique-y store and they had this little book called porn for moms. So I had to take a peek (sorry). It had images of men with their shirts off [...]

God has been giving me lemonade lately, and I have been turning it into lemons.
I need to change my perspective up a little bit. I’ve been so quick to become frustrated that I don’t even see the things I should be thankful for.
Like, I was so frustrated at my daughter all day for dumping syrup [...]

We have been “birthing” another baby at the Maguire home, one could say. Our church has been building a youth building for the past year or so, and it is finally open! It is bitter sweet for me to be honest. I know it is an amazing opportunity and most youth ministries across the [...]

Ladies, your posts were priceless! I loved reading them so much and got some great ideas about vacation time and what we can do as a family in the future. There really is no way to judge who does it best, that’s what made this so hard, hence the tardiness of the winner’s post. But [...]

Lately I’ve been feeling my age…or even older than my age:
*I was recently told I was too old to shop at the Brass Plum section of Nordstroms.
*My son just said, “Grammy wears those same pants.”
*Things seem to be so loud lately.
*I just bought eye cream and face cream to use at night.
*I talk to my [...]