Inspirational Parenting » Love

Notes of Love

Holly — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:10:01 +0000

Recently, my 7-year-old daughter made a mailbox out of paper and taped it to the outside of her room. I began using this as an opportunity to send her notes of love and encouragement. So, at various times of the day, without her seeing me, I would sneak a note into her mailbox. [...]

To Summer at Eighteen

Steve Meineke — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:41:50 +0000

November 1994

Dear Summer,

Eighteen years ago I stood looking at you—fresh-born—through the big glass window in the hospital nursery, watching the nurses try to count your tiny toes. Minutes old, you were bright-red-screaming-at-the-top-of-your-lungs unbounded life, squirming and kicking in every direction—quite a challenge to those toe-counting nurses. How I wanted to reach through the window, to [...]

A Kiss That Still Works

JoyH — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:27:36 +0000

Dr. James Dobson’s book, “Stories of the Heart and Home” illustrates that special romantic love that we dwell on during Valentine’s Day so beautifully, I just had to send it along to all of you. “But nothing is so beautiful as a loving relationship that conforms to God’s magnificent design”. Here is a brilliant example [...]

How Little We Know

Jeff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:29:21 +0000

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

- Richard L. Evans

If You’re Listening…

Jeff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:51:52 +0000

If you’re listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; it’s purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders. -Andrew Harvey

Catching Rainbows

JoyH — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:21:03 +0000

Last week, my Eli, 4, set about filling a jar full of water on the front walk. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was going to catch a rainbow. He thought about it, and it was the first sunny day in what had seemed like weeks. He spent the better [...]

My Child, My Teacher

Taz — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:04:53 +0000

There are moments in books and movies when a small gesture reveals a profound insight about a character. They might decide to go barefoot, or refuse to board a bus, or turn their face upward to taste the rain. After consuming enough literature and films, we learn that these moments matter and that the author [...]

I Have Found Myself, I Am A Dad!

Jeff — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:22:22 +0000

I am standing in a hot, smelly gymnasium. I can feel the sweat trickling down my back. My right arm is aching from holding up the video camera. My back hurts from hunching over so that I don’t block someone else’s view. And yet here I am with a big smile on my face… as [...]

Two Families: A Foster Care Adoption Poem

author unknown — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:23:59 +0000

Once there were two expectant mothers. One carried and cared for you beneath her beating heart She became your Birthmother. The other carried the hope of you within her. She became your Mom. Your Birthmother knew that she could not give you all you needed after you were born. Meanwhile, your Mom was ready and waiting for you. One day your Birthmom [...]

An Adoptive Mom’s Journey to Motherhood: A Mothers Day Story

Heidi Naylor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:23:54 +0000

I used to hate Mother’s day. Not because I was not grateful for my Mother or for what my Grandmothers did for me. They were and are great women. I hated Mothers day because it was a day to remember and honor mothers. Something I longed so badly to be but was not. On Mother’s [...]