by Sami | Jan 6, 2015 | Faith, Tommy Nelson
Have you ever heard of the expression “tour widow”? I hadn’t either before I became one. It’s an insider term for what much of the music industry calls the wives of musicians who go out on tour for weeks or months at a time, leaving them home...
by Sami | Dec 3, 2014 | Books, Giveaway, Reviews, Tommy Nelson
This Christmas, our family is giving gifts a little differently than we have in years past. Instead of allowing our kids to circle catalog after catalog or even fill out a massive Christmas list, we sat down and got a little more intentional with them. We didn’t want...
by Sami | Nov 14, 2014 | Faith, Tommy Nelson
Growing up as a young child, you could say I was a bit of a religious mutt. Neither of my parents were very religious, yet neither seemed to want to give in to the other. Hanukkah or Christmas As a first-generation American, my father was a cultural Jew and my British...
by Sami | Oct 24, 2014 | Articles, Faith, Family, Parenting, Tommy Nelson
While there are many rights of passage for a child – learning to walk, losing a tooth, breaking a bone – I’m not sure if any strikes as much fear in a mom as letting their child ride the bus for the first time. Since my kids went to private school...
by Sami | Aug 10, 2014 | Faith, Kid Tip, Parenting, Tommy Nelson
At my mentor’s 60th birthday party a couple years ago, her husband asked the small group of her close friends gathered around her in their living room to go around the circle and say something memorable about her. Most were her peers, so my husband and I gleaned a lot...
by Sami | Jun 19, 2014 | Faith, Parenting, Tommy Nelson
I wrote a post for FaithGateway.com focusing on peer pressure, and I wanted to share a piece of it with you here: Peer Pressure: If Your Friends Jumped Off a Bridge I’m sure all of us can remember a myriad of catchphrases we overheard our parents chastise us...
