Checking In With the Sisters – Christmas Traditions from Our Home, to Yours

by Lolli December 1, 2012 3 comments
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Lolli here… Today is the first day of December, and I am so excited to pull out all of my Christmas decorations and start playing all of my Christmas music (yes, my husband is a [...]

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Checking In With the Sisters – Power Outage

by Lolli November 24, 2012 0 comments

Lolli here… My 8 day extended family vacation is rolling to an end this morning. As sad as I am for vacation to end, I am eager to get back home–to my own bed, my [...]
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Checking In With the Sister Sites – Unpacking My Bags

by Lolli November 10, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here… As a mother of five kids (I got married and had 5 kids all in an 11 year span), I have felt the need to escape the laundry…the noise…the cooking. Don’t get me [...]

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Checking in With the Sister Sites – Every Smile, Every Laugh, Every Tear

by Lolli November 3, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here…. It seems like yesterday that I was a new mother with a toddler and another baby on the way. Now that toddler is a junior in high school, the newest member of the [...]

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Checking In With the Sisters – 5 Ways to Keep the Home Fires Burning

by Lolli October 27, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here… My husband and I have been married for 17 1/2 years, which seems like ages to me. We have a good marriage, but marriage is never easy. And marriage isn’t always….what should I [...]

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Checking in With the Sisters – Halloween Picture Books

by Lolli October 20, 2012 1 comment
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Lolli here… One of my favorite ways to get into the holiday spirit (whichever holiday might be coming up) is to gather as many books as I can that relate to the holiday to read [...]

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Checking In With the Sisters – Worship Through the Eyes of the Child

by Lolli October 13, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here… Every Sunday I play with preschoolers. While their moms and dads go to Sunday School, I build lego towers and pretend to eat wooden watermelon and hot dogs. Since my kids have moved [...]

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Checking In With the Sisters – Learning to Say “NO”

by Lolli October 6, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here… What is it about so many of us women that makes us think that we can and should say yes to everything that everyone asks of us? I had to laugh out loud [...]

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Checking In With the Sisters – If We Are Just One, We Can Break

by Lolli September 29, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here… I remember the day many years ago when my oldest daughter came home from church and began singing a song I knew I had not taught her. I was struck with the idea [...]

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Checking In With the Sisters – You’re Already Enough

by Lolli September 22, 2012 0 comments
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Lolli here… I know I’m guilty of comparing myself to other moms one too many times. Why is it so much easier to overlook another mother’s faults while we examine our own weaknesses with a [...]

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