Hi there. I'm Amy. I write here about my life and my issues. I also design blogs and websites at Uncluttered Design. I'm a mom to 4 and a former pastor's wife.
Amy
Unquestioning faith
So I was thinking about Mary this weekend. I mean the mother-of-Jesus Mary.
I like her.
She’s obviously a person who values goodness and righteousness to some extent (otherwise, why would God pick her, right?). So can you imagine what it must have been like to find out you’re pregnant as a virgin? How do you explain Continue reading...
Oh the innocence
In the car after picking up one of my daughter’s best friends for a play date. She recently moved from our neighborhood to another one nearby. The move required her to switch schools. She’s African American.
Me: So, how’s your new house [friend]?
Friend: It’s good.
Daughter: How’s your new school?
Friend: It’s good. But the kids are so Continue reading...
Blissdom in the Raw, Part 2
(Part 1)
So while slightly disconcerting at the time, I was grateful for my initial I’m-shutting-this-whole-thing-down feelings because it brought perspective. It was as though God was handing me a lens through which I would filter the rest of the conference. That lens repeatedly prompted me to ask this question: How will this (tip, strategy or Continue reading...
Blissdom in the Raw
First, let me say, I am so grateful I got to go to Blissdom. I would absolutely recommend it to any blogger and I would do it again in a heartbeat. The whole experience was invaluable.
Funny, I went thinking I’d get one thing, but I took home something entirely different. It wasn’t bad, it was Continue reading...
Thoughts on Blissdom ‘10 (so far)
Just a few early morning tidbits from Blissdom ‘10.
Avatars are such tiny pieces of a whole person. You look at someone’s avatar and then somehow conjure up a whole person to go with it. It’s fun to see how the picture you have in your brain does or does not match with what you see Continue reading...
My lives intersected
I lead a double life.
I have my real life and I have my online life — the two rarely intersect. Many of my IRL (in real life) friends know I enjoy the computer, some know I have a blog and some of them even read it. (Thank you IRL friends who read my blog!) But Continue reading...
One effective way to increase your blog’s pageviews
I’m currently conducting a bit of an experiment with the recent reinvention of WithPurpose.com.
I’ve kept this little blog of mine limping along since blogging antiquity. Uh, that would be May of 2004. (I like to say that makes me about 117 in blog years.) During that time, I’ve had ups and I’ve had downs but Continue reading...
Parenting tip: How to reboot a sluggish outing with kids
I told you about how I keep kids occupied while out and about. And I told you the simple tip that has improved our kids’ behavior in public. Now I have yet another! (This parenting thing is all about hacks to make the system hum, right?)
So say we’re out somewhere and things start to fall Continue reading...
One easy tip that has drastically improved our behavior in public
Whether it’s the store, a restaurant, church, someone’s house, the Dr.’s office — anywhere outside of our house — there is great potential to encounter “issues” when galavanting around town. I already told you how we try to keep little people occupied while we’re out and about, but there’s another simple thing I do in Continue reading...
One way I find lost items lickety split
This is a little trick I discovered recently and it works within minutes almost every single time. I can’t say it’ll work for everyone, but you just never know when you might find yourself in a situation where it’ll come in handy.
We’re forever losing stuff around here — someone’s shoe, my keys, my phone, whatever. Continue reading...
