by Darlene Schacht | Oct 3, 2010 | Children, Comfort, Family, Hope, Joy, Miscarriage, Motherhood, Parenting, Pro-Life, Your Letters
Darlene,I watched your interview with Amy. It was excellent!Did I hear you say that you had five miscarriages? I have had two and today I got news that it looks like I am having my third. I will not know for a few days as I did blood work again today. I had an...
by Darlene Schacht | Oct 1, 2010 | Hope, Memories, Miscarriage, Motherhood, Pro-Life
Dear Child of Mine,It started at the mall—that moment I knew I was born to be your mom and that you belonged to me. Dad and I had decided to shop our separate ways—his, the hardware department; mine, the pharmacy, where I scraped $14.25 together, so I could tinkle on...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 23, 2010 | Childhood Memories, Contentment, Joy, Motherhood, My Dad, Parenting
I still remember the day when I could barely hold the orange pencil that I carried over to my father. After taking a small carving knife from the yellow drawer in the kitchen, he sat in his chair at the red arborite table where he whittled the pencil and told a story...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 17, 2010 | Children, Humor, Motherhood, Parenting
Brown paper covered the tables in place of a fancy tablecloth, while the head of a deer with over-sized antlers hung above our table in place of class. In place of a vase sat a cup of broken crayons, which came in handy when sometime after the drinks were served, I...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 14, 2010 | Beliefs, Biblical Womanhood, Family, Help-Meet, Marriage, Motherhood, Pro-Life, Scripture, Submission, Values
I’m Darlene Schacht, and this is our story of God’s incomparable grace… Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. ~ Genesis 2:24, KJV It was my husband’s birthday I still had...
