Lisa Jacobson's Blog, page 28
January 17, 2016
What Marriage Taught Me About Love, Courage, and A Little Homemade Bread
You could tell it came as something of a surprise.
I mean, that I’d even consider attempting the thing at all.
Everyone knew how utterly inept I was in the kitchen. So this announcement was rather unlike me and his astonishment was understandable.
I had decided to bake bread.
Real bread. With wheat kernels, yeast, oil and salt. Starting from scratch and made with my own hands.
January 14, 2016
5 Steps to Dinner Success: How This Kitchen Failure Started Making Meals
Well girls, I’m almost 47 and both kids out of the house, and I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of this meal thing.
I will spare you the stories of my almost daily failure to make meals for my family over the years (although stay tuned for my book to be released soon, in which I give the whole dirt and how God has helped me.)
If you struggle to cook for you family but you want to improve in this area, I am the woman you want to listen.
January 13, 2016
12 Books To Help You With That Fresh Start
It took me almost 30 years to realize that New Year’s resolutions don’t work for me.
Every year, I’d make a resolution of some sort, and every year, I’d feel like a failure before January was over.
So instead of New Year’s resolutions, I choose books—old and new—to read for the New Year. Sometimes, I plan my book list carefully based upon what I want to learn and improve on.
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January 11, 2016
3 Things You Need To Know To Make It Through The New Year
Well, here we are, at the beginning of another year.
Some of you may be entering it with joy and excitement. You’ve been chomping at the bit to crack open that new planner in order to organize your life.
Some of you have been waiting for the new year to start that new book or Bible study.
Others of you have begun taking control of your health by throwing out the junk and sweating it up at the gym.
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January 10, 2016
25 Warm-Your-Heart Winter Date Ideas
I don’t think anyone ever really means for their love to grow cold.
And I’m not saying that ours is any chillier than when we first began.
Over twenty-three years ago.
But I will tell you that we find ourselves emerging from a very challenging season. And maybe you know what that’s like?
And I say “emerging” although that’s a rather optimistic statement considering not much has changed.
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January 7, 2016
A Wise Word to The Mom With Boys
A friend sent out a text, inviting several of us to a girls’ night at her house.
With that, she made us promise we wouldn’t look at her toilets, well, because of her boys and all.
I could not believe the volley of return texting that immediately followed her message. All these moms of boys had a lot to say about understanding what it means to have constant yellow drips on and around the toilet, especially my friend who has six menfolk in her house.
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January 6, 2016
5 Tips for When He Is Wrong and You’re In the Right
If he would just listen to me – really hear me out – then we could be done with this argument and move on with our life!
Ever been there? Ever had those kind of thoughts?
I would venture to say we have all found ourselves in the position where we knew for a fact we were right and our husbands were wrong. If you’re like me, sometimes you want to grab him by the shoulders and give him a gentle – maybe not so gentle – shake and say, “I’m right!”
Fortunately, I don’t know many people who that has actually worked for.
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January 4, 2016
Fresh Inspiration for Your Every Day: 15 Favorite Devotionals to Pick From
So many of you have asked me about this!
Maybe it’s the time of year.
Or maybe that place in life we find ourselves in.
Or perhaps it’s the spiraling world we live in.
Whatever the reason, this has been one of the most frequent requests in my inbox lately.
What devotional would you recommend? What would be an encouraging resource for my daily devotions?
January 3, 2016
How to Succeed {When Organizing Makes You Feel Like A Failure}
“Now I remember why I stopped making lists,” I said to him, as I headed up the stairs for bed.
“What?” he said.
“Lists. I stopped making lists quite a few years ago, because I never could get it all done. I just stopped writing stuff down, so that I wouldn’t feel like a complete failure at the end of the day.”
He met me at the bottom of the stairs, and I assumed the hugging position –me on the bottom step, so that I could wrap my arms around his neck from a flatfooted position.
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December 29, 2015
Why I’m Resolved to Be Better Organized This Year {and The Best Tool I’ve Found to Help}
So I want to be better organized this year.
Hoping for things to run just a little more smoothly and reduce the stress of my schedule.
You too?
While I’m not one to make many New Year’s Resolutions, I can’t help but acknowledge that this is a good time of year to stop.
Appraise.
And see where I can improve.
Not merely for my own sake, mind you, but also for the sake of my marriage and for my family.
