All Articles - Entries tagged "Biggest Loser"
FriFridayAprApril29th2011
Biggest Loser, Conclusion -- Greatest Gain: Christ Alone
Just this past weekend our family had the incredible blessing to spend Easter weekend all together, at the federal prison. As our 6 kids (now ages almost 4 to 17) and I made the very long, over 8-hour drive out of state on Good Friday, it gave me... More
SatSaturdayAprApril23rd2011
Biggest Loser, Part 11 -- Major Gain: My Identity
By the winter of 2011, our family was getting adjusted in our new home and surviving through another series of special holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s - all without the presence of my husband and their much-missed dad. On... More
FriFridayAprApril15th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 10 -- Major Gain: Our House
By the spring of 2010, our family was adjusting to our new lives – one without the physical presence of a husband for me and of a father for our 6 children. We “successfully” survived the first year of my husband’s... More
TueTuesdayMarMarch29th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 9 -- Major Gain: Our Insurance
By November 2009, I was beginning to accept and adjust to my reality as a “temporary single mom” with six kids, as I began to see glimmers of hope in our crisis. The Lord replaced our marriage as we knew it with the “gain” of... More
FriFridayMarMarch18th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 8 -- Major Gain: My Job
Just like God was replacing the loss of our marriage as we knew it, with a new and stronger foundation set on Him alone through this difficult period of incarceration and separation, I began to see a similar pattern in other areas of my life. After... More
MonMondayMarMarch14th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 7 -- Major Gain: Our Marriage
My husband’s first year in prison was the most difficult for all of us. As a (temporary) single mom of 6 kids, there were so many unanswered questions and a multitude of adjustments to make - physical, emotional, social, financial and... More
FriFridayMarMarch4th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 6 -- Major Gain: My Identity
During the fall of 2009, I was forced to accept the hopeless circumstances of my mind-boggling reality. I just could not believe that I was now an unemployed, (temporary) single-mom of six kids with a husband in prison, facing foreclosure. In... More
TueTuesdayFebFebruary22nd2011
Biggest Loser, Part 5 -- Major Loss: Our House
By September 2009, our “new normal” was beginning to set in. The autumn season provided a fresh school year with the older two starting freshman and sophomore years in high school, our third child beginning 7th grade in middle school, a... More
FriFridayFebFebruary11th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 4 -- Major Loss: Our Insurance
July 2009 was when I hit rock bottom in my journey as a “temporary single mom” with six kids. Unemployment and the lack of a daily routine along with all the kids at home for summer vacation was a recipe for disaster. As I attempted to... More
FriFridayFebFebruary4th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 3 -- Major Loss: My Job
Since my husband’s departure on February 17th, 2009, I became a (temporary) “single mom” with six kids (ages one to fifteen) literally overnight. Two teenagers, one middle-schooler, and three toddlers. One girl and FIVE boys. The... More
WedWednesdayJanJanuary26th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 2 -- Major Loss: My Marriage
Continued from Biggest Loser -- the story of one Mom's journey of hope through devastating loss. Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 was a cold and bleak morning in every sense of the word. It was the last day I saw my husband as a free man. At 5:30am, he... More
WedWednesdayJanJanuary19th2011
Biggest Loser, Part 1 -- A Different Way to Measure Life
The year of 2010 has been a season of extreme loss for many of us. Personally I have never faced such a dark season. My time of loss started about two years ago in 2009. I never thought in my wildest dreams (or in this case, “nightmare”)... More
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