My family and I were recently at the beach. The place we were staying at was right on the ocean and it had several amenities that you could only access if you had on a bracelet from the resort. We wore our bracelets all week so we could access the lazy river, swimming pools, etc. …
Category: God’s Grace
Taking the High Road
My family and I were recently in NC and were looking for something to do. When we need to find something to do, we always look at TripAdvisor which mentioned a spot called Shunkawauken Falls. It said it was right on the side of the road. Easy peasy right? Wrong. Way, way, way wrong. I…
Daughters
As a mom of 5 kids I have learned that I still have tons to learn. But along this path of motherhood some of my greatest lessons have been taught to me by the very children I try to teach. Lately, I’ve been thinking particularly about my daughters. One thing that all women have in…
When Ideals Collide
About 6 months ago my teenage daughter decided she wanted to be a vegan. She had been doing some research and for better health wanted to give the vegan lifestyle a go. For those of you unfamiliar, here’s what that means: A vegetarian does not eat meat, but may still eat the by-products of animals…
Not Letting Go
Yesterday was a day of adventure and misadventure. It was be-au-ti-ful! in SC in the early part of the day. The kids were sitting around playing on their devices and hubby and I decided they needed to get out of the house. We dragged the bikes out of the garage and pumped up the tires…
Why?
“Why does she do that? ” my 10-year-old asked me recently, while watching her 15-year-old autistic sister draw a picture. The question wasn’t why she was drawing a picture. It was why she had just drawn the same exact picture 15 times in 15 different colors and stacked them neatly in a pile. I wish…
Shredding the Label
I love glass jars. I like to reuse them over and over. I will buy something like a jar of spaghetti sauce, use the sauce, shred the label on the jar, wash it and use it again. When you reuse a glass jar, you can see that there is an old label there that no…
Deep Freeze
Here in the deep south we have recently been in a deep freeze. The whole country has had some brutal winter weather, but it is really unusual to see the mercury dip down into single digits in South Carolina. It has probably been decades since the weather was this cold during a southern winter. Nine…
Wrapping Your Own Gifts
It was a good Christmas at the Post house. My kids have outgrown Santa, so I don’t sneak around like I used to, but I do have a few holiday secrets each year. This year I was caught in the middle of one of them. My 10 year old was inspecting gifts one day and…
I Feel Sorry for the Statue of Liberty
Well, I don’t feel sorry for THE Statue of Liberty. The person I feel sorry for is the guy on the corner dressed up like the Statue of Liberty. In our town there’s a tax service that uses the Statue of Liberty as their mascot. When January rolls around every year we start to see…
What Winning Looks Like
She didn’t roam around the store or try to take off with 15 pair of socks or shred all the price tags into tiny pieces on the floor…
Standing on the Edge
Sixteen summers ago my husband was finishing up his first year of seminary and we didn’t have any children yet. We worked for the seminary and college but our responsibilities ended when the students left for the summer and we had 2 months before they came back. It was the first and only time in…
Grace in the Real World - by Connie Post 