All Posts by Alicia Michelle

My 40th Birthday Challenge: #my40 List and Photos

You can find more information about the #my40 40th Birthday Challenge (what it is and what I’m doing it) here.  [Tweet “This week, pick 5 people and tell them how they’ve made you the wonderful woman you are. http://wp.me/p4R9E2-16j”] This is the #my40 list! Friends, I feel like by sharing these with you I’m sharing something […]

My 40th Birthday Challenge: Celebrating #my40 Most Influential People

Turning 40 is one of those things that makes you want to spend some time alone. For some people that means ruminating on thoughts of getting old, regrets over past mistakes, etc. But that hasn’t been my experience. While it would be easy to slip into this mode, the last few weeks I’ve found myself […]

5 Powerful Strategies for Parenting Teens

Parenting children through the teen years is incredibly tricky. No matter how you slice it. Helping teens transition to becoming well-adjusted adults is a complex and unique process for each parent and child. While there are no perfect formulas for parenting teens to adulthood, I want to share 5 key mindsets I’ve learned that help parents transition […]

9 Tips For Raising Kids Who Change the World

We have a phrase floating around our house that we ask our kids: “What are you going to do to change the world?” And we mean it. We want our kids to dream big dreams with us. We want our home to be a place of imagining, creating and exploring. If dreams are where all […]

Day 11: Short Term Missions: What My Daughter and I Learned in Mexico This Christmas

  This post is Day 11 of Vibrant Homeschooling’s “12 Days of Christmas Teachable Moments” series.  Click here to access previous posts in the series. It was 10:52 p.m. and my daughter and I were driving. The streets were nearly empty as our pickup truck—filled with cans of food and other much-needed supplies—slowly passed the dilapidated […]

12 Ways to Make Crafts With Kids Stress Free

Making crafts with kids is always a joyful experience, right? A stress-free, lovely exchange of ideas where kids happily share items and keep a perfectly clean space. Oh wait, that’s not what it looks like in your house when your kids do a craft project? Nope, it’s not mine either. But wait–there’s still hope. Crafting with […]

How to Build Relationships with Your Kids Through Everyday Moments

At first glance you’d think that building family relationships is simply about spending more time together.   While this is true, we have to ask ourselves about the quality of that time together. What are your family interactions like? Is there lots of sibling conflict? And what are your interactions with your kids like? What […]

When Saying No Is Really Saying Yes to Your Family

This guest post was written by Connie Albers of ConnieAlbers.com.   The phone rang. “Hello?” I answered. I heard a familiar voice, one I was delighted to hear from. After a cordial exchange, this person got to the purpose of the call. What was said next caught me completely by surprise: “We would like to […]

When Good Parenting Means Letting Go

I dropped my son off at youth group tonight for the first time. Gulp. So many emotions raced through my mind. Things that I wasn’t prepared for or had even expected to feel. The biggest one of all was the simple letting go. “I’m kinda nervous,” he admitted with a shy smile as we walked […]

When Homeschooling Is Lonely and Hard: An Honest Conversation from One Homeschool Mom to Another

My husband was out of town last night on business. Like he always does when he’s out of town, he called me after the kids went to bed and asked “How was your day?”. Oddly enough I had been anticipating his question all day (and thinking about how best to answer it). Motherhood in general—and […]