Category: Joyful Parenting

My son is totally pushing me way outside my comfort zone right now.  He is 3 and needing VERY firm boundaries (and very little options!).  I like consistent and firm boundaries and strict discipline…but also loving and gentle and joyful parenting.  However, my little tyke likes to push the boundaries EVERY day.  He tests me all […]

    Sweet Hannah Boo’s personality is really blossoming now.  She is finding her feet and using them to stand up and even take steps with help!  She has learned to keep her feet flat and is getting stronger and stronger!  She has lost weight with all this moving and her face is starting to […]

Today was a day to remind me once again that imperfection is my key to Christ.  As Paul says, “My power is made perfect in weakness.”  God’s power is most beautifully and strikingly seen in imperfection.  Otherwise, people might be convinced that it is because of themselves (their talents, their background, their qualities).  “Everything is […]

The past few months have been incredible.  They have been BLESSED.  But, they have been filled with sickness, heartache, grieving, frustration, and longing.  I barely have had a moment to come up for air.  It truly has been one thing after another.  God has shown off for me though!  He has shown me how NOTHING […]

  Here is the story (so far) of our sweet little boy: Lewis Alexander Tinklepaugh.  A vibrant, passionate, loving, caring, deeply emotional and perceptive little boy.  He loves deeply, he cares deeply, he is full of FIRE, and full of life!!!  I went into labor with him at 33 weeks- my water spontaneously ruptured (quite […]

My heart is waiting, waiting this weekend. As I pour over pictures of my little princess, I am waiting for my Father in Heaven to prepare our hearts for what lays ahead next week and to see DELIVERANCE and HEALING. I know He will. It will help me to write about it and DWELL my […]

I cannot believe how much our sweet Lewis has grown the past week. All the way up to about a week ago, I have felt like every few minutes (sometimes seconds), I have had to discipline/coach/teach/address Lewis because of something he was saying or doing that I knew was not pleasing to the Lord (or […]

You would not believe the amount of rainbows we’ve had in the desert lately! So many storms and so many rainbows…it seems nearly everywhere we turn, there is a rainbow. I think rainbows are amazing. They remind me that God sends us His PROMISES during times of storm in our lives. God lets it rain […]