Candy Gibbs

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Hope Restored (Part Two)

March 11, 2016 • Parenting

Thank you for joining me again on the blog today!  A few days ago, I shared the first portion of the banquet speech along with a client video.  Today, I’d like to continue rejoicing in what God is doing through…


Hope Restored (Part One)

March 9, 2016 • Parenting

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2016 CareNet Pregnancy Centers & Mentoring Programs Fundraising Banquet!  It was such a wonderful night of celebrating what the Lord has done and is continuing to do! If you were unable…


Slang & Sexting

March 2, 2016 • Parenting

For parents to keep up with technology is one thing, but it’s another to try and crack the ever-changing codes of teen texting.  I read a great local article lately about teens’ slang and texting terms.  Kaylee Merchak of KFDA in Amarillo…


Humanizing Babies?

February 24, 2016 • Parenting

We’ve all seen the Doritos Super Bowl ad and heard the controversy surrounding it.  Click below if you haven’t seen this yet… The argument from NARAL, a national abortion rights lobby, that they posted on Twitter, denounced the ad above for “using…


16 Things

February 18, 2016 • Parenting

Several friends sent this message to me last week—wow!  One of the best parenting-type sermons I have heard.  This hits all the marks.  Listen as Watermark’s Todd Wagner talks to parents about being your child’s best parent (not their best…


One Team

February 16, 2016 • Parenting

Very few things have I seen in my lifetime more intense, more self-less, more overwhelming, more painful, more fulfilling, more frightening, more exhilarating, more true than the love of a mother.  Mothers demonstrate in a tangible way every day that…


He is love.

February 12, 2016 • Parenting

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine’s Day with your families this weekend.  I also pray that you take time to celebrate the Creator of love–He is the very definition of love.  In fact, He is love! First John shows…


I’m In Your Corner

February 9, 2016 • Parenting

For all of you who know me well, you know that I love sports, really almost all sports.  I don’t think winning is everything, but I do believe pushing oneself to try harder and to achieve is a wonderful life…


2am Hot Chocolate

February 4, 2016 • Parenting

So often, I think we are waiting on opportunities to connect with our kids.  We never want to miss one–an opportunity, that is.  When one presents itself, we want to be ready to take it.  But do we create an opportunity to…


CareNet Banquet 2016

February 2, 2016 • Parenting

  Dear friends, I hope you will all make time to join us for CareNet Pregnancy Centers & Mentoring Programs 2016 Banquet. Thursday, March 3, 2016 Civic Center Heritage Ballroom, Amarillo, TX Doors open at 6:00 pm, complimentary dinner to…

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