Megan Scheibner

Sending Him Off With Style

By: meganscheibner June 28, 2013December 4, 2020

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How’s that love relationship with your husband going? I don’t doubt for a second that you desire closeness, intimacy, friendship, and even a certain level of relational give and take. What are you doing to make that desire a reality? We women are funny creatures. We read books about improving our marriage. We attend…

Holding On While Letting Go

By: meganscheibner June 24, 2013December 4, 2020

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Ecclesiastes 3:6 A time to keep, and a time to throw away. To me, motherhood has always seemed to be about holding on and letting go. Recently,however, there’s been just a little too much letting go for my comfort. My baby girl, Baleigh, left for Kenya last week. With my third daughter in…

Rituals are Reassuring

By: meganscheibner June 21, 2013December 4, 2020

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Summer is finally here! We’ve put the schoolbooks away. We’ve cleaned the cobwebs out of the corners. We completed the summer/winter clothing swap. I don’t know about you, but for me, summer just couldn’t come quickly enough! For the Scheibner’s summer means a steady repetition of the same old, same old. We always get summer…

Yes, It’s Worth the Effort!

By: meganscheibner June 19, 2013December 4, 2020

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The last couple of months have caused a shift in priorities around the Scheibner house. Instead of our usual “Parent-Centered: You kids are welcome members of the team,” approach to life, suddenly everything has become child-centered. Between baseball season, swim meets, prom, graduation, senior banquets, middle school plays, choir performances, and the usual myriad of…

Absence Makes the Toilet Clog

By: meganscheibner June 14, 2013December 4, 2020

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A dear friend of mine has been posting on Facebook lately, sharing the daily foibles of her husband’s absence from home. With her Navy husband gone on a detachment, she’s dealing with the inevitable broken appliances, sick children, and “Why did that have to happen now!” situations. Ever been there? With three military deployments in…

Crazy Days

By: meganscheibner June 9, 2013December 4, 2020

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The last month has been an incredible whirlwind in my life. Let me share just a few highlights: My youngest child finished elementary school and is now a middle schooler. My middle schooler is now in high school. My 17 year old attended prom, planned her graduation party, and made some incredibly mature and…

Husband Honoring Prayer

By: meganscheibner June 7, 2013December 4, 2020

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How often do you cry out to the Lord on your husband’s behalf? Do your prayers for your husband look like a laundry list of complaints, unmet expectations, and discontented laments? Are you always asking the Lord to change your husband to match your ideals, or are your prayers focused on his growth and wellbeing.…

Curveballs and the Life of a Teenager

By: meganscheibner May 21, 2013December 4, 2020

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By Baleigh Grace Scheibner I always used to feel bad when I heard about someone getting hurt or breaking a bone, leaving them to only be able to do certain things in their lives. I never really realized how hard it was though, until I got my first ever concussion. It was a doozy!…

A Nanny’s Thoughts on Healthy Living

By: meganscheibner May 17, 2013December 4, 2020

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Come on, we can do it! Wow you’re such a strong girl! My Goodness, are you going to be big and strong like Papa? Now how do you know you don’t like it if you don’t try it! Eat Child; eat! These are a few of the phrases I utter all the time. I…

A Portrait of Grief / A Life of Joy

By: meganscheibner May 11, 2013December 4, 2020

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Romans 8:38-39 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. My wife and I were…