A special thank you to Nicole Waggoner for this guest post. It feels like an entire lifetime ago that I relocated from Texas to Oklahoma, but I can still remember the overwhelming, terrifying feeling I got in that first year after the big change as I thought: “I may never have girlfriends again.” I came from a healthy and wide social net of female friends back in Texas. The lakefront community was close, and my female friends and I even closer. We were there for each other … [Read more...]
Healthy Friendship Tips for Kids
We've traveled so much for my husband's work that my daughter has made friends in a lot of cities around the country. But as she is getting older (almost seven) she is becoming more shy. Making friends isn't coming as easy to her. When kids are younger, they make friends so easily. As we age, it seems to progressively get more difficult. I have friends that I've known since I was a baby and friends I've know almost my whole life. Those friends I cherish, even if I don't see them as often as I'd … [Read more...]
7 Friendship Quotes That You Need to Read
One of the hardest things about life on the road is maintaining friendships. I am not good at it. I miss my friends. Girls night out... Real life communication... It gets lost while traveling from city to city. Relationships take time. Investment. Cultivation. We were created for personal relationships by a God who also craves one with us. Do you ever think all this social media has driven us all further apart rather than together? In many ways, social media has been great keeping up … [Read more...]
