Category Archives: Spiritual Encouragement

Both these women are 80 years old. Your daily choices determine how your future will unfold. ~ Dr. Joe Dispeza

January 14, 2018Spiritual EncouragementT.W. Allgaier

Absolutely inspiring!! Ernestine is amazing!

Quiet Please

January 11, 2018Parenting, Spiritual Encouragementchildren, Christian encouragement, christian encouragement for moms, empty nest, encouragement for moms, hearing, listening, noise, quiet, raising children, simple spiritual lesson, teaching your own childT.W. Allgaier

There is something to be said about it.

I know as a young mother of two active boys I would often crave that quiet. If they weren’t talking… the tv, Nintendo or music was being heard. We had to carve out time for quiet.

I would sometimes try to escape to the bath tub and lock the door. But with only one bathroom, locking the door was prohibited. So “quiet” wasn’t easy to come by….But once in a while, I would have the boys turn everything off and just listen. Sometimes it worked, most of the time it didn’t if I am honest. Continue reading Quiet Please →

Which side of the Coin?

January 9, 2018Spiritual Encouragement, Teachingcall on your life, coins, compassion, encourage, encouragement for moms, encouragement for teachers, first year teacher, homeschooling, homeschooling mom, learning styles, Love one another, mom, new homeschooling mom, new mom, new teacher, respect, teacher, TEACHER MOM, teaching position, two sides of the coinT.W. Allgaier

I am sure you have heard this: “There are two sides to every coin?

Most of us have been on both sides at one time or another.

An employee/employer.

Child/Parent….my favorite! Sometimes around your parents, you feel like a twelve-year-old again. Or when you get around your own children and they like to tease and make you feel like a very old woman!

I have been a student, a public school teacher, a new mom, a homeschooling mom, a mom of public/private school teenagers, and a public school teacher, partially retired…in that order. I have been on both sides of the coin, maybe several coins. Often those coins were shiny…but sometimes very dull and scratched! Continue reading Which side of the Coin? →