by Shannon Popkin | Aug 9, 2013 | Beauty, Beliefs, Communication, Mistakes, Sin
Last week, we hosted a Mother/Daughter BEADazzle party. Lindsay and I had learned (from another mom and her daughters) how to take various colors of clay and swirl them together to create beads. We thought it would be fun to share our new craft with other moms and...
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 29, 2013 | Beliefs, God, Mistakes, Salvation
My husband’s resume is pages and pages long. Which means he’s had lots of different jobs. Which means he has interviewed for dozens of positions. But he’s never had an interview quite like this one.It was an interview for a management position at his...
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 19, 2013 | Faith, God, Humility, Mistakes, Parenting
In my hands, I hold the strings of the three kite-like kids whom God has blessed me with. I have a lot to juggle with three–wanting each one to soar high in the sky. It’s so fun to have the other people around me tilt their heads back and admire the...
by Shannon Popkin | May 30, 2013 | Marriage, Mistakes, Roles
It happened about seven years ago, and it’s never happened since: I picked up the hedge trimmer.I had been pestering Ken to trim the bushes before our guests were to arrive the next day, but ‘bushes’ weren’t at the top of his list. So I...
by Shannon Popkin | May 23, 2013 | Kids' Perspective, Mistakes, Parenting, Sin
“Mommy, I just took my socks off ’cause they got wet from the paint.”He said it as he was whizzing past–sockless–on his way up from the basement to go outside. “What paint?” I called after him.”That paint on the...
by Shannon Popkin | May 20, 2013 | God, Mistakes, Parenting, Sin, Teens
Lindsay is our first child–our parenting ‘experiment’. Only, as a preschooler, she provided an invalid hypothesis: She made parenting seem easy. If we used a stern voice, she would drop her head and comply. If we gave her one warning, and the...