by Shannon Popkin | Oct 3, 2014 | Compassion, Humility, Jesus, Parenting, Roles, Serving
Dedicated to my friends at Thornapple MOPS. :)I’ll never forget the Hazens. We knew their family when we had preschoolers and babies. They had big, burly boys, who absolutely loved my kids–especially our new baby, Cade. They would ask to hold him, and...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 13, 2014 | Control Girl, Leadership, Marriage, Submission
Trying to hide my surprise from the waitress, I glanced up at her and said, “Thank you.”But when she walked away, I looked across the table at my husband and let my astonishment seep into my expression.There, on the white linen table cloth, was the black...
by Shannon Popkin | Aug 5, 2014 | Communication, Mistakes, Parenting, Wisdom
A friend was recently giving me an update on how it’s going–now that his oldest child is behind the wheel. He said he grips the door handle and yells a lot, and it seems to be working!I laughed and told him I’d have to try his grip-n-yell technique....
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 30, 2014 | Change
Sorry to be such a stranger lately. I’ve been spending all my free time trying to figure out my new laptop.Isn’t a new computer supposed make life easier? Mine certainly didn’t.The first few days I began using it, I couldn’t find anything....
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 19, 2014 | Anger, Roles, Submission
As a friend and I were enjoying a long catch-up session, she mentioned the difficulties and strains of marriage.As she talked generically about her struggles, I secretly wondered if she gets frustrated with her husband the way I get frustrated with mine. I thumbed...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 31, 2014 | Conflict Resolution, Submission
First, can I just comment that a lot of my writing material comes from Costco? (Like this and this and this.) I can’t decide if it’s because I’m at Costco all the time, or because extraordinary things happen there. Maybe both.So I was driving through...