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How to THRIVE This Holiday Season
If you’re like many single moms, the holidays can be the most difficult time of the year.
Discover the Beauty Within You
Beauty Points The beauty within you is released in stages. It requires transformation, or “complete metamorphosis” just like a butterfly!
How to Persevere Past the Potholes – Third Part
Let’s talk turkey. Life is difficult. However, our God is bigger than “difficult.” You can fly like an eagle even if you are a single mother.
How to Persevere Past the Potholes – Second Part
Let’s talk turkey. Life is difficult. However, our God is bigger than “difficult.” You can fly like an eagle even if you are a single mother. So how do you handle life’s potholes, pests, and perils?
When Burnout is a Blessing
“…the woman said to Him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty’” (John 4:15).
Wishes and Dreams
I was thirty years old when I gave birth to my youngest child. Jay was quickly diagnosed with Down syndrome and congenital heart disease. My little bundle of joy was a very sick baby. His immune system just didn’t kick in.
The End Doesn’t Mean It’s Over
Do you know one of the things I absolutely LOVE about God? It’s that He uses simple things to confuse the wise.
The Potholes
Let’s talk turkey. Life is difficult. However, our God is bigger than “difficult.”
Do You Need A Good Laugh?
I recall one day when I was a single mom, someone came up to me and commented, “Pam you used to be funny.” And my reply was, “Well, life used to be funnier.” Sound familiar?
Picking Up the Pieces
Storms happen. In Oklahoma, we are very familiar with tornadoes that rip houses from their foundations. They leave a trail of debris and piles of rubble. They forever alter the landscape.
5 Tips in Helping Preschoolers with Separation Anxiety
I’ve recently visited with a number of moms who are feeling anxious about their children starting preschool. I remember when Jason started prekindergarten.
If I Had Only 40 Minutes, What Would I Tell Single Moms
For the past eleven years, I’ve had the immense joy to be the Friday night and Saturday afternoon keynote speaker for the Survive ‘N’ Thrive conference.
Becoming the CEO of Your Home: Ask for a Discount
If you read my first blog post, “Where it all started,” you have some idea the magnitude of trouble I found myself in financially.
Lighten Up
I discovered something last week. I’m a creature of habit and stuck in a rut of doing life the same way every day
Growth Chart
I have been transferring old VHS tapes to our computer recently. It’s been fun looking back and remembering high school, college, and when the kids were little.
Co-Parenting – Tips in Making It Work
Are you sharing custody of the kiddos? How’s it working? Rarely do I hear someone say, “It’s going fantastic. I LOVE this!” Any why is that?
Mission: Survive N Thrive
I attended Survive ‘N’ Thrive two summers after my divorce was final. At that point, I was done crying, had found my way back to Christ and I was looking
Ten Commandments in Mothering Well
I love the image of Moses in the Bible holding the Ten Commandments after God emblazoned them on stone tablets at Mount Sinai. God put them in his hand to pass along to the Israelites.
See The Battle
Being a single mom is hard. Sometimes it feels like it’s “me against the world.” And it especially feels like that when that “irregular” person in your life