WKU Assessment Clinic

To those of you in Bowling Green, or close by--WKU is offering an Assessment Clinic to assess kids from birth to age 4 on April 5th and April 12th. It's free and gives students in the Early Childhood Education dept. a chance to practice what they've learned. The assessment provides information regarding progress in adaptive, communication, motor, personal-social, and cognitive skill areas. They will also give suggestions for individualized activities that might help your child personally.

If you've ever wondered how your child is doing developmentally, this would be a great chance to get some info and advice for free. Anyone interested should email Penny Adams at penny.adams@wku.edu or Susan Miller at susan.miller@wku.edu .

friendship

My local group of moms that I hang out with had an interesting discussion about friendships the other day (a subtopic of a marriage discussion). It seems like as you add children to your home that marriage can become more challenging and certainly a lot more work. We're all tired and trying to communicate deeply takes effort.

This seems to trickle over into our friendships with women too. We all know we need each other.....we need fellowship and the wise counsel of others going through similar things. Still, it is hard sometimes to lower our personal fences and share our problems or other deep things in our lives.

I've been reading John & Stasi Eldgredge's book "Captivating" which often puts me a very melancholy mood as I consider what it means to be a woman. If you're like me you try to stuff your 'needs' into the closet and pretend to be strong all the time so that your husband or family does not feel overwhelmed by you. But the reality is that we want our husbands to pursue us and to be interested in us, even when our lives consist mostly of diapers and Elmo's World.

In the book, they also discuss female relationships and how women's fear of rejection spills over into regular friendships and keeps us from bonding with one another. It seemed like it was easier before I got married somehow. And yet I still need other women as much as I did before.....maybe even more. Anyway, this is a deeper topic, but wanted to see if any of you out there feel lonely or have any thoughts on developing better friendships. You can post here or on Facebook.

Thanks!!

dry skin?

This is a new topic added on the facebook page. Maybe you all can help! Since it got so cold, Lewis' skin has become almost like an elephant's--very dry and tough! At first I thought he had a terrible rash, and maybe it is eczema, but wondered if anybody else was dealing with that this winter? We keep piling on the lotion and it helps, but he is still so dry. Poor boy.