The Carrie Life

Can I just say my kids are growing up WAY TOO FAST! My youngest  is  about to hit five and I don't know what to do with myself. She  ...

I sat in church recently and just gazed at my son sitting next to me.  I am in awe sometimes of who he is because even though my husband I h...

Last week, I started the discussion of prayer and our kids. If you missed it , please check that one out first for the top 3 of my list!  I ...

This isn’t my first post about who I want my kids to be when they reach adulthood.  Their faith, character and integrity are definitely int...

This last week my son and I finished reading the book, “A Wrinkle In Time” by Madeleine L'Engle.   I told my son we couldn't see...

I think anyone who has kids, of any variety, knows parenting is HARD! Don't get me wrong, it is also amazing!! Becoming a mom awakened a...

Do you remember this question - What do you want to be when you grow up ?  I remember getting asked this a lot throughout my childhood and a...

Last week I had one of the best days ever!  My son and I went into his room, closed the door, turned off the lights and turned on this color...

If you are new to my blog or don't know much about me, you may not know when I was 18, the summer before I started college, I had...

I recently woke up to find my Kindergartener had gotten up ahead of me and cut his own hair, mind you, this happened three days after he got...

They Don’t Belong To Me Right out of college, I spent a year in a Discipleship Training School (DTS), which if you don’t know,...

We grow up being asked what we want to be when we grow up.  Kids rattle off a list of professions like police officer, astronaut, teacher...

Do you ever feel like your best just isn’t good enough?   I think most of us can answer, “yes” to that question.   The truth is -  ...

I become a mother 14 years before I had my son.  That may sound strange, but my definition of mom has been altered a bit through the l...