Category: Parenthood
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M Trifecta: Messy Married Mom
Written by Stacey MicklevitzMessy Marriage Team Member I bear the burden of being a Messy Married Mom. You know the type. My marriage isn’t always perfect, and my kids aren’t always perfect. Maintaining a fulfilling married relationship with my husband, Bryan is difficult enough on its own. Add two tots to the mix, and the…
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Love Makes a Family
We talk about waiting on God A LOT around here at Messy Marriage because, frankly, this life is full of “waiting on God.” And as I’ve mentioned before, God very often does His greatest work in our lives when we wait on Him, and this could never be more true than in the lives of…
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On the Palm of My Hand
Written by Kimberly Green Messy Marriage Team Writer Accepting the news that your child has a disability is preceded by many, many grief steps and emotional adjustments. You deny, then you try to fix, then you put on the battle armor of defensiveness that covers everything but the chip on your shoulder. We want to protect and nurture our children, and, as Christ…
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Finding Contentment in Heartache
December’s “Share Your Story” is by, Becky Kopitzke who blogs at Time Out Devotions for Moms They flooded the mailbox that year. Christmas cards—glossy, smiling photos of loved ones far and near. Full-page letters boasted of job promotions, weddings, vacations, and new babies. So many new babies. I wanted to be happy for my…
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A Resource for Christian Moms
Recently, I discovered a great article at Find a Nanny website that I feel like my Christian mom readers might appreciate. It’s called 30 of the Best Christian Mom Blogs. The article highlights blogs in the following subcategories: Spiritual Instruction Discipline and Correction Activities that Teach the Bible Christian Private School Faith-Based Homeschool Christian Mommy…
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How Making My Point Can Be Dangerous
photo by oe2azm Years ago when our kids were small, we had a habit of letting our tempers take us to heights of hostility and summits of stupidity. What made this “argumentative mountain climbing” worse was, we had our “kids strapped to our backs” as we clung to the jagged edges of our egos, anchoring…
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Porn’s Influence on Our Children
I believe that marriages are often made messier by the “messes” our children become involved in. So I want to arm parents with helpful information regarding this issue. The information I will be sharing is from Josh McDowell’s Just1ClickAway.org Dr. Jill Manning, author of What’s the Big Deal about Pornography? testified before a U.S. Senate…
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Unhealthy Alliances – Triangulating
One of my father’s well-worn Bibles and a “red pencil.” When I was growing up, my father was a workaholic pastor. When he wasn’t visiting people (he once had a goal of visiting 80 families a week), he was busy studying his Bible—hours on end and always with his red pencil. Now, both of those…
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Family Dining – Autism Style
Written by Kimberly Green Member of Messy Marriage Team Today’s post is a snapshot in the life of an imperfect family whose challenges include raising a child with autism. It is a bit longer than our usual posts in an effort to adequately paint the complex feelings of a day in the life. My fantasies…
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Mixed Feelings on My Boys, Marriage and Milestones
This seems like a timely topic for me, since I’ve found myself reflecting back on those many years of raising my three boys, due to some milestone moments of late. And not only have I reflected on the past, but I’ve also looked ahead to my three son’s futures, asking myself, “How well have my…
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