Figuring Out Equally Shared Parenting : Gender roles, shmender roles

March 29, 2012 Karen Huber

What we have is special.

That's how we, the husband and I, feel. From the day we got married, till last night "spooning at a distance" in bed, we know that what we have is special.

We are also kind of weird.

That's how we have felt as parents and coworkers in full-time ministry who, for the last 5 years, have been a stay-at-home, work-from-home, and work-out-of-the-home family, doing almost all of it together. Once we discovered a name for it - Equally Shared Parenting - we began to feel not so weird. And while we're still working out the kinks, I wanted to share a bit about what we do at home, why we do it, and how.

31 days of LIVING in transition

October 1, 2011 Karen Huber

Photo by Marcelo Silva on Unsplash — Photo by Marcelo Silva on Unsplash

Well, the time has come for a little bit of discipline and accountability in my life. And I have to tell you: I'm a little bit scared. You see, God has been pushing me beyond my boundaries of laziness, stress, and frustration into a zen-like place of...

The non-lameness of a Family Purpose Statement

April 19, 2011 Karen Huber

Here you have it: our family purpose statement. We'd been reflecting on such a statement for about a month now, with prompting from Organized Simplicity. We made lists, discussed dreams from the past and hopes for the future, reflecting on what we wanted to be like and how we felt God made us to be. We started with a super, simple statement:

Love a lot: Love God. Love people. Love eachother.

We liked this general purpose a lot, but wanted to have some concrete descriptors as to what that love would look like on a tangible level. In the end, we came up with this:

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