Category Archives: Family Life

BOOK REVIEW | Living With Less So Your Family Has More

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Title: LIVING WITH LESS SO YOUR FAMILY HAS MORE Authors: Jill and Mark Savage Publisher: Guideposts March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8249-4801-6 Genre: Inspirational/nonfiction/finance The world we live in believes that the more we have, the better off we are. We’re striving for bigger paychecks so we can have that fancy bass boat, the big house in the good part of town, designer shoes, and our sixteen year old daughter can dress live a diva. But all that it really does is bring more stress into Read more ...

BOOK REVIEW | Project Dad

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Title: PROJECT DAD Author: Todd Cartmell Publisher: Revell April 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8007-1999-9 Genre: Inspirational/parenting What does it take to build a great dad? Men like to build things, usually, and Todd Carmell maintains that they can take this God-given talent to help them become great fathers. Cartmell has a friendly and even humorous style of writing that will draw you into the book—taking you on an action-packed journey into becoming the dad God intended for Read more ...

BOOK REVIEW | Dear Mom

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Title: DEAR MOM Author: Melody Carlson Publisher: WaterBrook Press 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7491-4 Genre: Inspirational/parenting Sometimes it seems like raising a teenager is like trying to chart a course underwater. And girls are ten times harder than boys (or so I’ve been told.) Whichever, you are in for one-word answers, defensive conversations, unpredictable outbursts, and sometimes it seems like you’ll never get anywhere. Now, popular novelist Melody Carlson has written Read more ...

BOOK REVIEW | How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?

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Title: HOW DO YOU TUCK IN A SUPERHERO? Author: Rachel Balducci Publisher: Revell March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8007-3372-8 Genre: Inspirational/parenting Rachel Balducci knows about raising boys. She has five of them. So she doesn’t have to look very far to find material for her book. I was impressed after reading just the first couple pages how she nailed boyhood on the head. I have two boys, and I could relate to most all the stories she shares. Such as, the love language of boys Read more ...

BOOK REVIEW | Real Solutions for Busy Moms

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REAL SOLUTIONS FOR BUSY MOMS by Kathy Ireland Moms are super busy these days, whether they have one child or twelve, and if you have to balance a career with children and a home, then you need help! You need real solutions right now. Ms. Ireland understands. She is the parent of three children, a wife, and the CEO of an international business, so she draws on personal experience, research, and conversations with other moms across the nation to offer hope and powerful, practical answers. Ms. Read more ...