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Volunteering on the Island Lesvos

January 4, 2016 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Andrew Frania volunteering in Lesvos {Mom of Many}

On Christmas Day, our son Andrew left his home in Wisconsin to travel half way around the world to volunteer on Lesvos, an island off Greece about 4 miles from Turkey. Daily he scans the horizon for boats full of refugees and then offers hope and safety once they make it to shore. 1000-5000 refugees from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey arrive on the island every week and need to be cared for and directed to resettle in Europe. I have set … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Family, Family Events, My Kids, Notable Acts Tagged With: Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lesvos, Refugee crisis, refugees, Syria, Turkey, volunteers

A Kid Friendly Thanksgiving Table – Parenting Tip #13

November 24, 2015 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

The Kids' Thanksgiving Table {Mom of Many}

Is Your Thanksgiving Table Kid Friendly? Since the kids tend to get a bit impatient waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to get on the table, do a little something different this year. Give them special placemats. The Thanksgiving coloring pages are from Busy Bee Kid's Printables. They will grab the kids' attention and take it off you - giving you the freedom to finish up on your Thanksgiving preparations. Create kid friendly hors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Family Events, Parenting tips Tagged With: family, kids' table, parenting, parenting tips, stressed parents, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving tablescape

Are You a Disappointed Adoptive Parent? Parenting Tip #4

October 17, 2015 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Parenting Tip for Adoptive Moms {Mom of Many)

October 16, 2015 When I realized today's date, my thoughts turned to my kids, but not in the usual way. One year ago today Jillian and I took my 86 year old mom to the hospital for a quadruple bypass and valve replacement. Just nine weeks later we lost her to a stroke. You can find the first in the series on my other site, Love My DIY Home. But my main topic isn't my mom today. I want to talk to you about your adopted kids. (The rest of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Family Events, Parenting tips Tagged With: Adoption, parenting tips

How Much is Too Much Loss?

July 18, 2015 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

How Much is Too Much Loss? {Mom of Many}

Our family and friends have experienced so much loss, pain and suffering lately.   Everywhere I look I see loss. My father-in-law passed away a year ago. My mom 6 months ago. A friend lost her youngest son in a car accident yesterday. Another friend is caring for her youngest son who was in a head-on collision two days ago. Thankfully he is still with us - they came so close to losing him. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, Ministry, Musings, Spiritual Truths, Things I've Learned Tagged With: accidents, family, loss

Oh, it’s been a long time..

April 16, 2014 by Val Frania 1 Comment

Love My DIY Home

Greetings, my peeps! It's been quite a while since I've done much here on Mom of Many. But I have a good excuse - honestly! I've been crazy busy with a ton of irons in my fire (had to start a fire, it's been so cold out here in Wisconsin!) Last July I started Love My DIY Home because I want to work from home. I saw an opportunity to start a monetized blog (more on that later) and thought it would be a good fit for me. We've talked a lot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, Just for Fun Tagged With: Adark Holsters, family responsibilities, Love My dIY Home, stress, support

Christian Liberty – Permission to be Free

July 15, 2011 by Val Frania 1 Comment

I made reference a few days ago on my Facebook status that our Pastor, Weng Liew, had "hit one out of the park." He sent me his notes tonight and I have his points listed below. Make sure you slooowwwlyy read through them. At first glance they appear to be the typical sermon on Christian liberty, ie: do right, do your best, don't use your liberty to sin, etc. But take the time to read what he has to say. Read each word carefully. If you do, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, Ministry, Notable Acts, Spiritual Truths

To Taylor from Dad

June 15, 2011 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Family Events, My Kids, YouTube Videos

Jesus Leads Us Through the Fog

May 14, 2011 by Val Frania 1 Comment

Last night we were on our way home from Taylor's graduation in Florida when we encountered a dense fog about 40 minutes from home.  It was about 11PM and we had been traveling since 8AM. First it set in in spots that only took a second to drive through. Then it descended so heavily that I couldn't seen more than 50 feet ahead of me. I was in one of those situations where if I slowed down to a safe speed, I could be hit from behind by a vehicle … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, Spiritual Truths

Moving In…

April 20, 2011 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

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Daniel Goes to College!

August 30, 2010 by Val Frania 1 Comment

Recently we were able to get funding for Daniel to go to Shepherd's college. He's happy as a clam and enjoying college life. His teachers told us at our visit last week that he's an excellent student. I said in my heart, "Of course he is, he's a Frania!" I guess I can't claim humbleness when it comes to my kids. The first year he will work on the basics like math  and grammar. The second year he will begin either horticulture or culinary studies. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, My Kids, Notable Acts Tagged With: college, FASD, Shepherds

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Don’t shoot the messenger.

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Galatians 4:16

Learn to Learn

"The first object of teaching, then, is to stimulate in the pupil the love of learning, and to form in him the habits and ideals of independent study." ~ John Milton Gregory

Allergic to Smoke?

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." ~ C.T. Studd

Abraham Lincoln on Criticism

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Consider the Cost

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." ~Winston Churchill

Charles Spurgeon

"Our blessed Lord reveals himself to his people more in the valleys, in the shades, in the deeps, than he does anywhere else. He has a way and an art of showing himself to his children at midnight, making the darkness light by his presence."

Progress through Perseverance

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight of life, knowing neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The Reformed Pastor – Richard Baxter

“We must carry on our work with patience. We must bear with many abuses and injuries from those to whom we seek to do good. When we have studied for them, and prayed for them, and exhorted them, and beseeched them with all earnestness and condescension, and given them what we are able, and tended them as if they had been our children, we must look that many of them will requite us with scorn and hatred and contempt, and account us their enemies, because we ‘tell them the truth.’ Now, we must endure all this patiently, and we must unweariedly hold on in doing good, ‘in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.’ We have to deal with distracted men who will fly in the face of their physician, but we must not, therefore, neglect their cure. He is unworthy to be a physician, who will be driven away from a frenetic patient by foul words. Yet, alas, when sinners reproach and slander us for our love, and are more ready to spit in our faces, than to thank us for our advice, what heart-risings will there be, and how will the remnants of old Adam (pride and passion) struggle against the meekness and patience of the new man! And how sadly do many ministers come off under such trials!”

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I'm an empty nester wife to one, mom to 15 (many) and Grammie to 13. Mom of Many is a gathering place for ministry moms who reject isolation and embrace community. No one is alone if they reach out to others for support and practice transparency. Welcome! I hope we can become friends.

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