Archive for the ‘Romancing’ Category

This is my every day life right now. Passionately pursuing the hearts of my boys. I am learning, making mistakes, asking their forgiveness and trying all over again. I haven’t perfected this romancing their hearts idea, rather, it is something I strive daily to do. Why do we seek to romance the hearts of our [...]

We write weekly love letters Ok, it’s not as sappy as it sounds. I promise. Despite the fact that I am writing about romance for an entire month we aren’t much for mushy, sappy stuff. And the weekly love letters we write aren’t really real love letters… let me explain… It was all Paul’s idea. [...]

Day 6 – Family Night Activity Family night is extremely important to us – as parents we want to foster a simple enjoyment of just being with our sons, no matter what the activity is. For us family night isn’t just a formal setting aside of one evening a week to do something together [...]

This is where I am transparent and show you how this series isn’t so much about sharing these ideas as it is to remind and encourage myself as to the importance of romancing the hearts of those closest to me. Sometimes we are really good at the stay-at-home-date thing. It was once, for a very, [...]

Profile of a Boy This is our youngest son – when he grows up he doesn’t know what he wants to do. Not for a lack of ideas running through his mind, but because there are too many possibilities and because -LOOK! AN AMBULANCE JUST DROVE BY! Wesley is a live-in-the-moment kinda kid. His [...]

Every child is, obviously, unique in their combined strengths and weaknesses and I chose to spend today and tomorrow giving you a glimpse of who my kids are and how we are uniquely pursuing each of them. These are general highlights and hopefully they will inspire ideas that you can use in pursuing your own [...]

“Today is your day to be awesome. Your success or failure yesterday has no bearing on today. It’s not who you were yesterday. It’s about who you’re fighting to be. And you? You’re fighting to be awesome. So today is your day.” -Kat from Inspired to Action {click through to read the rest of her [...]

31 Days of Romance is not about candlelight, fancy dinners out, moonlight walks or even really much about doing at all. It is all about the being. About relationship. About being in a relationship and the fostering, nurturing and intentionally directing actions to positively affect relationships with those closest to you. Romance, I would surmise, is [...]














