Steps, Tips and Funny “Don’t Do This” Stories to Help You Advance in Your Financial Freedom & Live Out Your God-Given Legacy
A Grand Adventure: Evoking the Imagination of Our Littles
Trips to the local bakery to buy a cookie and a good book filled with grand adventures were just a couple of ways I kept our minds distracted from our hectic schedule and often chaotic transitions. She was just eighteen months old. A toddling little toddler at an...
Helping You Pivot Through Adversity and The Secret Sauce to Turning It All Around
Helping You Pivot Through Adversity and the Secret Sauce to Turning it all Around
The Hard Truth about Rest and What We Need to Know
When it comes to communication, I prefer a clear, direct, and no-fluff approach. Leaves little room for confusion and my personal interpretation. But often times Jesus delivers a slow, methodical message with built-in images for the long term affect. This time is no...
A Call Into the Wild: Trust God’s Truth to Guide You Through the Wilderness
This is an invitation. A call for those in the wilderness. Trust God's truth to guide you through. As the global health and economic pandemic escalates, so are your concerns about your livelihood and ability to survive this crisis at a time when you were already...
Single Mom, An Invitation to Lean In and Trust God with Your Heart
Trusting God with your heart... Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit...
Four Proven Systems for Success Sure to Help Any Single Mom Win the Race
When I was married, I relied heavily on my husband for the direction our lives would take; where we moved, what our lifestyle would be like, the cars we drove, the house we lived in. He was the breadwinner and I was a stay at home mom. I’m the kind of personality...
Helping You Find Freedom Within Your Rhythms
Mama, you are created to be a masterpiece. Do you believe God is the conductor of your soul? A conductor who can help you play the greatest symphony pieces within? The word symphony comes from an ancient Greek word that means "a sounding together." When you find your...
Braving the Broken Heart, An Invitation for You
Running toward me from the security of her warm bed, those little feet pitter-pattering with a scurried beat of pleading, she begged me to let him in. Her precious heart, broken and frantic. Her need great. Torn between two worlds, I wanted to gift the request her...
Finding Freedom From the Overwhelm of Your Single Motherhood
I set on the foot of the bed, holding my littlest one in one arm and wiping the tears streaming down my face with the other. I set there with little desire to move from the comfort of my bedroom. It was just passed 8 a.m. and my husband stood in the doorway. His blank...
Five Best Practices to Help You Create Winning Routines Around Managing Your Finances
Over the last years, you've set down 9,392 times to create a winning strategy to help you manage your finances. For a minute, it was every Sunday. Soon that dwindled down to one Sunday a month, which has now turned into a short glance into your bank account a few...
An Invitation to Summer Fun & a Little Bit of Rest
When we were little it seemed summer fun just landed on our laps, with zero effort at all. The school bell rang on that hot afternoon and we knew adventure awaited us even it was merely expressed by the slip n slide in your backyard, a fast melting popsicle on a stick...
What Are the Experts Saying About Single Moms and Their Career Choices? Check Out These Five Articles to Learn More.
One of, if not, THE biggest stressor in my single motherhood journey was the idea of figuring out who I wanted to be when I grow up. I was working at a local sandwich shop making less than five dollars an hour when I first learned I would be expecting a bundle of...
101 Practical & Powerful Ways to Show a Single Mom You Love Her While Giving Her Hope & Encouragement to Succeed
In all honesty, there are a million and one ways to show someone you love them, but a single mom shooting for the stars? She's going to need practical and powerful ways to be loved. Whether you are a friend, neighbor, family member, church or organization, here are...
10 Single Mom Secrets to Making Your Money Count
Ten years of being a single mom and I struggled with finances. Big time. One bankruptcy and nearly $100,000 of total debt. Sound familiar, friend? Because I’m not good at keeping secrets and because I don’t want you to struggle for as long as I did, I put together...
Are These Four Lies Keeping You From Paying Off Your Debt and Enjoying the Sweet Life?
As a single mom, I've landed myself in over fifty thousand dollars of debt. Not once, but twice. Because of these delightful experiences, I'm way too familiar with the lies that kept me paying the price of debt. And I've been wondering lately, if you are too....
OH BABY! BABY! BABY!
Hey there! I'm so glad you stopped by. How are you? You may find it's been a little quiet around here for a bit. Summer had me resting, resting right into a due date of a baby girl! A new baby is a sweet, sweet thing. I am thankful for a husband who supports me in...
Hello Summer
One of my favorite seasons has finally arrived. That time of year we reflect midway. Another school year completed, what went well, what needs to change and lot's and lot's of rest. Hello summer. Welcome rest. It's a time to soak in the accomplishments and relax from...
Honoring the Journey of Dating
Dating and solo motherhood. It's a wild adventure. Dreaded to some and easily welcomed by others. Honoring the journey, especially after a toxic relationship, will help build the trust you'll need to carry through for something sweet and deserving. If you hadn't...
Do You Know Where You Are — In Christ?
Summer 2007, heading up and over one of the big mountain tops on my way to Vegas for a five-year stretch, I felt the stir of adventure and excitement. The people I would meet, the foods I would eat and the many adventures I would discover. But that moment of...
Mothers Day Special
I'm a firm believer that perfect balance doesn't exist. In general, when talking about the heart and order of the home or any person I'm connecting with, I prefer leaving the word 'perfect' off the table. In the world of solo parenting, where demands seem endless and...
Five Single Mom Secrets to Bridging the Gap and Building Your Income
You might dive in and find these five single mom secrets to bridging the gap and building your income not much of a surprise. You might even dig in here a bit and find yourself disappointed. These five secrets are secrets because, in a time when more and more are...
10 Single Mom Steps To Help You Monitor Your Tween and Teens Cell Phone
Because the life of the single mom is already hectic, I've designed a list of 10 Single Mom Steps to Help You Monitor Your Tween and Teens Cell Phone. Time in the world of a single parent is very precious and limited, and how much safer do we feel to be able to...