How To Be Heard
Let’s start with the obvious. As soon as our kids (or grandkids) get old enough to ask questions they begin shooting them at us at a pace that can be tiring, if not flat out brutal! What isn’t quite so obvious is the
Are you test ready?
Friday night football, backpacks, new clothes, homework, book reports, mediocre lunches. Does that list sound familiar? If you pretended you were on the game show The Pyramid and answered, “Things associated with school” you would have won the prize. Reading the list may have
Bring Them With You
God and I have several special places we like to be together, but it was clear I wasn’t going to be experiencing any of them that particular morning. The house was bursting with grandchildren. Translated that means scant private time with God on
You Ought to be in Pictures
I have a large and very heavy ceramic bowl on my kitchen bar that has caught loose pictures for the past fifteen or so years. No doubt that’s why it’s overflowing, but every time I even attempt to “weed” it, I get engrossed
Make Sure You’re Plugging in!
As I may have mentioned ten or two hundred times already, I was doing a number of things simultaneously long before the experts gave it a name and began debating its advantages and disadvantages. Their conclusions are a moot point for me. I
There is no standing still
I’ve worked out most of my life, give or take a season, and I’ve proven one theory over and over again. If you get off the exercise wagon it’s increasingly difficult to find the motivation to climb back on board! As of this
How to Embrace the Promise of 2023
Let’s talk about the new year! We love the promise of 2023’s blank slate, don’t we, friend? We start out with gusto, making plans to let “that” go and do “this” better. I know I do. At the same time, past experience reminds
The Love chapter
Hey RIG family, we're all familiar with "The Love Chapter" found in Ist Corinthians 13. It truly stands alone in its beauty. This shouldn't be interpreted as an effort to compete with those words. It's simply a little prose I wrote about Christmas
Amazing chocolate caramel cookies
The grands are coming! The grands are coming! We’ll need cookies, game-changing grandmas and I have just the recipe. My chocolate caramel cookies never disappoint. Want to share your favorite cookie recipe? We’d love to have it. Post it and tag @rockingitgrand Hugs, Shellie “Amazing
Families come in all sizes
Hey RIG fam, it’s Shellie here. I was knee deep in Christmas decorations when my mind started turning around on a familiar thought pattern, and I found myself wanting to give words to something I pray will meet someone right