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How well do you supervise your older kids? Parenting Tip #21

December 2, 2015 by Val Frania 1 Comment

How well do you supervise your older kids? {Mom of Many}

  I hear comments occasionally from parents who think they are obligated to give their kids complete privacy...um no, I never did.   They don't: look through their kids' stuff. check up on them to make sure they are where they are supposed to be. find out who their friends are or who they hang with. talk often with teachers and coaches. require accountability with schoolwork, school and church activities or how they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Family, Parenting tips, Things I've Learned Tagged With: Adoption, adoptive parents, discipline, family, FASD, parenting, parenting tips, special needs, support

Has your child rejected your faith? Parenting Tip #11

November 22, 2015 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Has Your Child Rejected Your Faith? {Mom of Many}

I asked my some of my newest M.O.M. members this question: "If you had to name one parenting moment or a behavioral issues you couldn't get victory over, what would it be?" This is one mom's question: "Okay Val, I'll give you mine - and I'd be thrilled if you have an answer: [How do you handle] adult children who turn their back on everything they've been taught about the Gospel? No victory yet with the almost 30-year old. I'm excited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Parenting tips, Things I've Learned Tagged With: discouragement, family, parenting, parenting tips, support, trials

Do you have parenting goals? Parenting Tip #5

November 6, 2015 by Val Frania 2 Comments

Parenting Tip #5 {Mom of Many)

Give Yourself a Break When my kids were still living at home, I often would fall asleep at night stressing over what I had not accomplished that day - it was very self-defeating. "Why did my kids act like terrors today? Why did my son bite my daughter? How is it that I never seem to get the house clean? I'm home all day. I need to do better..." It is very common to stress over what we didn't get accomplished that day. But what about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting tips, Things I've Learned Tagged With: parenting tips, stressed moms, stressed parents

Are You Looking to Be Entertained in Church?

September 3, 2015 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Why Are You in Church? {Mom of Many}

What is your motivation for going to church? Really. Be honest. Are you looking for entertainment? Do you go for the fellowship. Do you go for the programs for your kids? Do you go because you're supposed to? Do you go because others will think ill of you if you don't? Do you go for the music or excitement or so you will get a good feeling? There is a prevalent belief these days that our church much have it all. Here are ten "I wish our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spiritual Truths, Things I've Learned Tagged With: church, doctrine

6 Ways to Keep Electronics From Frying Your Kids’ Brains

August 7, 2015 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Kids & Technology {Mom of Many}

Should we let our children jump into the tech world? Is it safe to let them online? Will their brains get fried? Will they turn into electronics zombies? Will they be socially retarded? Will people think you are a lazy parent? It's a fairly new debate. Should your kids play games, search the net, talk to Siri on your iPad, iPhone or laptop? How much is too much tech? If we do, how much supervision do they need? How much, how long and how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Educating Our Children, Musings, Spiritual Truths, Things I've Learned Tagged With: family, parenting, technology

Are your standards dictated by your church?

July 31, 2015 by Val Frania 9 Comments

  This has been an age old controversy. Or maybe we can call it a debate. All I know is I have put a ton of thought into this and finally feel like I have a handle on it.   I'm 56 years old and finally can say I am enjoying true freedom in Christ. Oh, I always had it, just wasn't free to enjoy it. It took me many years to get to the place where I understand that statement and to be confident in applying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ministry, Musings, Spiritual Truths, Things I've Learned Tagged With: Biblical standards, church standards, Freedom in Christ, Man of God, modesty

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

Ladies, YOU need to hear this… Listen up!

September 15, 2014 by Val Frania 4 Comments

Hey ladies, my valuable, worthy ladies who love God and put yourself out there every day for others. Yes, I mean you. I have something to tell you, something you NEED to hear. I’ve gotten so many letters, texts, Facebook messages, phone calls, and frustrated, “I need to talk to you,” face to face encounters that I have to address this. Urgh. There is something you may not know and I’m going to tell you right now. So listen up. You are valuable. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ministry, Musings, Spiritual Truths, Things I've Learned Tagged With: boundaries, confidence, daughter of the King, discouragement, love, ministry, stress, support, trials, women's value

MAC Shortcuts

February 20, 2013 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

MAC shortcut chart - http://pinterest.com/pin/35677022020332005/ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I've Learned Tagged With: MAC shortcuts

Vaccine Awareness

September 14, 2011 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4HkwCA7ft4&w=420&h=345] … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Political, Things I've Learned

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“If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.“

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Want God’s Best?

“God reserves His best for those who leave the choice to Him.” Pastor Randy King
Abandonment {Mom of Many}

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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