Your Mom Has A Blog: Recent Episodes
Melissa Edgington
Well, hello there! Remember us?
This week we give a few life updates, plus one-ply toilet paper, a new season of parenting, and some thoughts about discouragement. Thanks for listening!
This is it! Day 30 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Thinking about how your marriage will end.
This is episode 29 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: We couldn't talk about 30 aspects of marriage without addressing sex. Don't listen to this one with smaller children in the room!
This is episode 28 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Unrealistic expectations.
This is day 27 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Expressing love without fear.
This is day 26 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Forgetting about what's fair.
This is day 25 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: The trouble with idolizing each other.
This is day 24 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Dealing with baggage.
This is day 23 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: The Bible, sermons, and books.
This is day 22 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Communication.
This is day 21 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Husbands as Spiritual Leaders
This is episode 20 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Being charitable together.
This is day 19 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Take care of each other.
This is day 18 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Helping each other grow spiritually.
This is day 17 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Supporting each other's callings.
Enter our big giveaway here.
This is day 16 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In today's episode: Speak about each other with kindness.
This is episode 15 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Shared responsibilities.
This is day 14 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Equally yoked.
This is day 13 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: No such thing as privacy.
This is day 12 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Praying together.
This is day 11 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: More peace-making strategies for fighting couples.
This is day 11 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Two sinners, one marriage.
This is day 9 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Love when you don't feel like it.
This is day 8 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Words matter.
This is day 7 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: When Fighting is a Way of Life
This is Day 6 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection with Your Spouse. On this episode: Be willing to learn from each other.
This is day 5 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: Becoming close friends.
This is day 4 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. On today's episode: "It's us against the world."
This is day 3 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: United in Love, part 2
This is Day 2 of 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. In this episode: United in love, Part 1.
Today we're kicking off a month long series: 30 Days to a Deeper Connection in Your Marriage. On this episode: Correcting the way we think about marriage.
Hey, y'all! This week we're talking about the start of school, football time in Texas, my trip to Lifeway, our school mascot, and more! Thanks for listening!
It's Christmas in July on the podcast! Our friends Jackson and Heather join us to talk about their brand new project, the Nativity Tradition.
Find more info:
This week we talk about our summer vacation, why Chad can't really handle bowling or minigolf, more repenting over mean celebrities, and a call for Christian parents to take a hard look at their family.
Day 31 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them the gospel.
Find the book we mention here: The Big Picture Story Bible (aff link)
Day 29 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them to see both men and women as souls made in God's image.
Find the article we mention here: How Male Bashing is Killing Our Sons
Day 28 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them appropriate patriotism.
Here's the article by Russell Moore that we mention: What I've Learned in Twenty Years of Marriage
Day 27 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them to go to church, with our special guests, the Edgington children!
Day 26 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them what an authentic Christian life looks like.
Here's the blog post we mention: Maybe Women are Some of the Worst Offenders
Here's the book we mention: Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms
Day 22 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them that God is in control.
Click here to watch Twila Paris dance. :-)
Day 21 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them how to behave in public (and at home).
Day 18 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them the dangers of technology.
Here are links to some of the resources we mention in this episode:
(Note: Some of these may be affiliate links.)
Good Pictures, Bad Pictures
Every Man's Battle
Every Woman's Battle
Every Young Man's Battle
Every Young Woman's Battle
Covenant Eyes
XXXChurch
Tim Challies-Sexual Detox
Day 16 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them that they aren't the center of the universe.
Day 15 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them that salvation is more than an emotional response.
Day 13 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them the sufficiency of scripture. We also spend a fair amount of time discussing worship. Follow this link to see the Greatest Showman video we talk about.
Day 12 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them how to think about hard times, with our special guests Jackson and Heather Chang. The audio quality isn't perfect--we're still experimenting with the best way to bring in guests who are far away! Thanks for listening!
Day 7 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them to go to hospitals, nursing homes, and funerals.
Day 6 of our 31 Day Challenge! 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: #6- Teach them to look forward to things.
Day 2 of 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: Teach them what a Christian marriage should look like.
Day one of May Madness! 31 Things to Teach Your Kids: #1- Teach them not to be too cool for things.
This week we talk about Chad's tie hoarding, loving small, recognizing sin, and John Paton leaving home.
Here's a link to the hip hop video Chad mentions.
Today we talk about Chad's grudges against a couple of celebrities (and one department store), funeral singing, neanderthal DNA, and family worship.
You can find the Joel Beeke books about Family worship here and here.
Check out my blog to see the photos of Chad and me with the celebrities in question here.
On this episode we talk about New York City, Christmas cards, what people will say at our funeral, and the Great Commission.
This week we talk about appreciating your spouse and letting go of all of those ridiculous fantasy expectations.
This week we talk about being patient with our children as they grow spiritually. Also, Chad brags about the party bus.
This week: Ten Ways to Teach Politeness to Children. Plus, Andy Griffith, Ernest P. Worrell, and more.
This week we talk about braces, the shooting in Las Vegas, Hugh Hefner, legacy, and more.
Follow these links to check out the articles that we mention:
"An Act of Pure Evil"--Searching for Meaning in Las Vegas
Hugh Hefner, the Logic of Porn, and the Homosexualization of Sex
Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner
This week we talk about school, cafeterias, concession stand food, my worst first day of school, mom shirts, and more. Thanks for listening!
This week we talk about turning 40, church camp, special music, Chad's idiotic teenaged hero moment, and more.
Well, we're back! This week we talk about our vacation, Teen Vogue, a kidney transplant, sleeping in church, and more!
Click here to go to my Facebook page and enter the giveaway we talk about!
This week we talk about Chad's ailments, golf's parallels to church life, music, and the saga of the lost keys.
Welcome back to the weird world of Chad and Melissa's podcast. This week we talk about Christmas songs we hate, our twenty year long hamburger debate, Chad's major ancestry discovery, the end of the school year, and being in God's family.
This week our youngest turned five! We survived the preschool years (all twelve of them)! High fives all around! In this episode, we talk about some things that we feel made a difference in our marriage during the crazy little bitty kid phase. We hope you'll find some encouragement and maybe some practical advice that you can use. No experts here, just sharing what has worked for us. Also: our most loyal listeners, Chad's latest experience with being open, and more!
To celebrate our 30th episode, we invited our second most popular guest to come back: the one and only Jackson Chang! We talk about what we were doing at 30, being open, thoughts on sanctification, Jackson's knack for getting food poisoning, and more. Thanks for listening!
Here's Jackson's dancing video we talk about. It was an instant classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lak0aaYV6Is
This week we talk about Easter, FFA jackets, terms of endearment, which Bible names we would choose, church directories, and what church has meant to our lives.
This week we talk about Easter clothes, Chad's wedding day shirt, VBS, and we even Facebook lived part of the podcast. All in all, it was a big mess. Hope you enjoy!
This week Chad raps. Yes. He raps. Plus, Mike Pence and the "Billy Graham Rule."
Here's the Karen Swallow Prior article we talk about.
This week we talk about more ways that we have noticed God working. Also, ranch dressing, Christian tapes, t-ball, sopapilla cheesecake, and more!
This week we talk about the pastor's conference, t-ball, women's conferences, a lesson from a funeral, giant pencils, and more!
This week we have a special in-studio (ok, in-living room) guest! We chat with Amber Cok about thinking globally. I love this girl!
Here's the link to shop Noonday, get info about hosting a trunk show, or learn more about becoming a Noonday ambassador, like Amber: bit.ly/melissaspringND
This week we talk about Star Trek, getting older, the 80s, how our spiritual focus has changed, church when we were kids, obsessing over beauty/self, and more!
This week is a special Valentine's Night edition of the podcast! We talk romance, Elvis, aging, and Valentine's Day! Plus, a song!
This week we talk about being crazy sports parents, Valentine's Day, date nights, and we even have a special surprise visit from Jackson Chang, romance specialist.
Take two of this week's podcast. We talk about why we started over, about tone and attitude, Chad's bad accents, Pancho's, Sawyer's birthday, and who knows what else?
This week we talk about clutter, annoying habits in marriage, and this article about women and alcohol.
This week we talk about an interesting experience in Walmart, right on the heels of our conversation about being more open to the Holy Spirit. Also, nightmares and why guys need to just let their wives decorate!
It's our first podcast of the new year! Shout outs, resolutions, and our word for the year.
Long time, no talk! Finally get y'all caught up on what we've been up to. Plus, Christmas on a Sunday!