{"id":26,"date":"2021-05-12T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/?p=26"},"modified":"2021-05-19T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:30:52","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/2021\/05\/12\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/shutterstock_1133756090.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" width=\"486\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/shutterstock_1133756090.jpg 971w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/shutterstock_1133756090-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/shutterstock_1133756090-768x791.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to my little corner of the web! We are a homeschooling Army chaplain&#8217;s family currently serving at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Well, actually, we are in transition from Ft. Jackson, South Carolina to Rock Island. My two youngest, Aricka and Seth, and I are already at our new home on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River while my husband out processes in South Carolina. Thankfully, he joins us in about a week after a month of being separated (distance only). For a military family, being apart for only a month is no sweat \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have five amazing children, ranging in age from 29 to 16, two awesome sons-in-law, and five incredibly adorable grandchildren. I am the General Manager of Marketing for The Old Schoolhouse\u00ae, a certified birth and bereavement doula\/chaplain, previous child welfare worker, and former owner and CEO of Army Wife Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name I chose for this blog is <strong><em>Tying Heartstrings <\/em><\/strong>which stems from my belief that parenting is more about discipleship than discipline. When we work to build strong, loving, grace-filled relationships with our children, and disciple our children in the Word of God, and in living our faith out in daily life, discipline becomes something that is necessary once-in-awhile, but not every-single-day as they grow beyond their toddler and preschool years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>&#8220;Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.&#8221; -Proverbs 22:6 KJV<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some bullet points about me\/our family that I will expand upon and share more about (Lord willing) in the days, weeks, and months ahead on this blog:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#727475\"><li>I am a Christ-follower first and foremost. He is my Rock, my Redeemer, and my Everything. Without Jesus, I am completely lost but with Jesus hope and peace overflows.<\/li><li>My &#8220;life verse&#8221; is Jeremiah 29:11 and the Lord will bring that verse to my attention in some of the most amazing ways at the times I need it the most. <\/li><li>I love to talk in bullet points because that&#8217;s how I think.<\/li><li>Adoption has touched my family in a very special way.<\/li><li>My oldest daughter experienced 3 stillbirths, which is what lead me into becoming a credentialed birth and bereavement doula and chaplain. I also used to be a photographer for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.<\/li><li>My father passed away when I was 6.<\/li><li>I love to share quotes.<\/li><li>I have comma issues and tend to either over-use them or under-use them . . . there&#8217;s no in-between.<\/li><li>I have met and mingled with many famous\/ high-profile people over the years, but prefer everyday people&#8230;like me \ud83d\ude42<\/li><li>As I result of the previous bullet point, I don&#8217;t get &#8220;star struck.&#8221; I say this because people often ask me, &#8220;Were you nervous&#8221; or &#8220;were you excited to meet&#8221; so and so. My answer is yes and no. I get nervous meeting anyone new and during my days on Army Wife Talk Radio, I was always excited for every interview I conducted because I loved talking to people and learning about them. Whether they were well-known or little known, I took great joy in giving them a platform to share their story \ud83d\ude42<\/li><li>Despite my often extroverted exterior, I am actually very introverted and so are my husband and all but one of our children. <\/li><li>I love coffee and coffee memes. I even have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/coffeememecafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook page<\/a> dedicated to it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I could go on and on but will end it there for now. I have three grandbabies whom I hear playing downstairs, waiting on me to take them to the zoo on this beautiful sunny day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be blessed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my little corner of the web! We are a homeschooling Army chaplain&#8217;s family currently serving at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Well, actually, we are in transition from Ft. 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My two youngest, Aricka and Seth, and I are already at our new home on the Iowa side of &#8230; <a title=\"Welcome!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/2021\/05\/12\/welcome\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/tyingheartstrings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}