by Shannon Popkin | Apr 8, 2013 | Differences, Family, Humility
I don’t vacation well. It’s taken me many vacations to figure this out, but it’s true. If I were graded on my vacation behavior, I would have a pretty low grade point. Hopefully my husband won’t force me to drop out!I always begin losing points when the packing...
by Shannon Popkin | Apr 5, 2013 | Anger, Parenting, Speaking
The day I spoke at Laura’s mom’s group was the first day she had ever put her son in the church nursery. Having only left him with her husband and her mom, Laura she literally felt like she was going to have a panic attack as the meeting opened. She wanted...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 26, 2013 | Anxiety, Humility, Parenting
I don’t remember why they pulled their library books out of their backpacks, as they sat together in our front yard, but I do remember trying not to panic.The other two boys, who were in my son’s class at school, had thick, Harry Potter-sized books. And my...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 23, 2013 | Compassion, Pain, Parenting
Once when I was cooking dinner, two-year-old Cade bumped his head on the cupboard, and started to whimper. I was in the middle of adding meat to a pan, so I glanced down to see if he was OK, then looked back to the stove. Lindsay did the same thing, glancing...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 15, 2013 | Anger, Family, God
Yesterday morning, I added my daughter’s Water Polo schedule to the big calendar in my kitchen. I filled in weekday boxes and wrote into the corners of weekends, which were already crowded with soccer games and tournaments. By the time I had transferred...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 12, 2013 | Communication, Friendship, Marriage, Roles, Wisdom
As a young wife, I remember being at a barbecue with some of Ken’s friends from work and their wives. Whenever the men would start to ‘talk shop’, the women would roll their eyes and turn to begin their own conversation. They wanted to talk about...