Traci Knoppe lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband Mark, six children, one grandchild (and another on the way!), one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law, and four dogs. Traci has written numerous articles on the subjects of parenting, homekeeping, marriage and the Christian faith. Visit Traci at Traci's Cottage, her blog. If you’re like many people - you make resolutions each year, only to find by the end of January (or the end of the week!), you’ve already blown it. Why do we seem to fail so miserably at resolutions? I believe, in part, it could be our heart motive behind those resolutions.
Without a doubt, the most common resolution we hear about is losing weight. With America’s obesity crisis on the…
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My children attend a small private Christian school. It’s an awesome school, but they do not provide hot lunch service, so my children take their lunches every day. Milk is provided, but no way to heat lunches - so a little creativity is in order to offer the children healthy, balanced meals, without resorting to sandwiches every single day.
Here’s a few items that I believe are must-haves for school lunches…
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With Father’s Day rapidly approaching, I felt it appropriate to write a reminder as to who should lead in your home. I know us moms usually handle the day-to-day tasks involved in parenting children. We cook, clean, change diapers, kiss the boo-boos and train the children in many areas (some even educate via homeschooling). These duties can often make us think we’re in charge; and since it seems our fleshly…
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Ahhhh - the joys of the internet. They are many! But so too are the dangers. Recently there was a Missouri woman who was killed, and her unborn baby cut from her body, by a…
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If you’re like most women, you have struggled with getting it all done: the housework, cooking, running errands and the laundry. If you’re a mom of many children, then I know you have laundry -…
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As a parent, you realize that life’s lessons are most often taught in teachable moments. We can not sit all the children down, in a one-time lesson and teach them everything they need to know on safety issues, to keeping a home to living a Godly life. So we use teachable moments. I have two such teachable moments, I’d like to share with you.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about…
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Have you ever had an epiphany? I call them “Duh Moments”, but scholarly folks call them epiphanies - guess it sounds better. For quite a while now, we’ve had a problem with the kiddos getting…
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Yes ladies, I have another MacGuyver in Training (MIT) tale to tell. This one is not pretty. ‘Johnny’, the 4 year old MIT, is, for the most part, potty trained. This major feat did not…
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