Behind The Brand

March 13: Shelly and I, along with another teacher, stayed late after school. It was a Friday. We were in the gym decorating for the next week's book camp. The eager participants in the upcoming Dr. Seuss Book Camp were signed up. The supplies were bought and ready. As we finished the decorations, we started getting messages that the President had declared a pandemic in our nation. We called in the forces in our families.  Let's divide and conquer. Hit the stores on our way home...just in case. What if we're out of school for a couple of weeks? That's...

We have talked in the past about our fears. On our Facebook lives we have teased each other about our "irrational" fears. And although that's been a hot topic for us in the past, the point of the conversations wasn't really about the fears themselves. The point is overcoming the fears. The point is not passing those fears on. The point is supporting each other through all the "irrational" stuff. The phrase "fear not" appears in the Bible at least eighty times. That has to mean something, right? I am certain that satan uses fear to immobilize and limit us....

We are moms. We are daughters. We are wives. We are sisters. We are teachers. We are the organizers, uber drivers, nurses, cooks, listeners, consolers, menders, shoppers, cleaners, errand runners, appointment setters...and so much more. We adore our husbands and never minimize their important roles as the head of our homes. However, as in most families, the matriarch is the hub of the home. That is a role we wouldn't trade for anything. But sometimes it happens that you are so immersed in keeping all the spokes of the wheel turning, that you lose contact with yourself. Now I would...

I sat down to write this blog post once before. My fingers started typing and out came a totally different and unexpected post. Read our previous blog, "Make It Count", to see what happened with that one. So, I will attempt this one again. On one of our lives in the Triple Faith Tribe group, we had a rapid fire question thing going on. One of the questions fired at us was, "What irrational fear do you have?" Shelly's was easy. She has a fear of frogs. She will be the first to admit it is irrational. I sat there...

Hello, friends...hoping this finds you all well. Shelly and I are back to school. This is our nineteenth year. YIKES! Where has the time gone? Of course, after this many years, you start contemplating life. It has had me thinking about when I first started teaching. But back up a few years. I was young, married, and had two toddlers. I had started college but really wasn't committed to a major. We were living paycheck to paycheck. I had been feeling the calling to teach...but was trying to ignore it. How could I continue going to college when we needed...