Top 5 Ways to Become a Foolish Mom

No one starts out their parenting journey determined to make a foolish mess out of things.  But just for fun, what if we did? What would it look like to strive to become a foolish mom?  Here are the top 5 ways to become a foolish mom on this April Fools’ Day: Click To Tweet Give no thought to eternity.  Live each day without considering tomorrow.  Refuse to think about your eternal soul which will give an account of your life.  Live for today…take as much as you can from everyone around you NOW.  Ignore the verse, “Look carefully then …

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Attention Boy Moms! Make Room In Your Heart For Their Special Girl

Copyright: Olena Bilion / 123RF Stock Photo  Attention boy moms, there’s going to come a time when you need to make room in your heart for your son’s special girl. Ouch, I know, that’s a tough one, especially if you have little boys at home right now. As a matter of fact it took me a long time to wrap my head (and my heart) around this, but I’m hoping that through my trial and error your transition might be a little smoother. Over the years it’s not always been easy, as any boy mom can attest to. They are …

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Six Suggestions to Stop Sibling Squabbles

Any mom with two or more kids has seen sibling squabbles… from the toy snatching of toddlers to the bickering of older kids. And even though these interactions between sisters and brothers are inevitable, they can sometimes be hard to deal with.  Here are six things you can do as a mom to stop the squabbles (and increase the love): 1. Get involved. Rather than yelling at your kids to stop fighting (or hiding in the other room pretending not to hear them), get in the mix. If you have little ones, kneel down and talk on their eye level …

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How a Single Mom Accomplishes the Impossible

  Wendy Hirschfeld is a single mom accomplishing the impossible. Beautiful fields, grazing farm animals and a tight-knit family surrounded Wendy as she grew up in Nebraska. Emmitt, on the other hand, struggled to survive amid the drug laden streets of Chicago.  Emmitt’s father was robbed from him through carbon monoxide poisoning when he was only 8, and was left to survive with his drug addicted mom.   Emmitt’s family eventually drifted to a shelter in Omaha, Nebraska while he attended middle school.  While there, his birth mom abandoned him… Emmitt had absolutely nowhere to go. Until Wendy took him as her …

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Our Family Formula

A friend once asked me long ago to share my family formula for a healthy family. It really made me think, because I KNOW what it FEELS like, but have never really put it to paper. So here’s a snapshot into my family about 8 years ago, which is very close to what we still do today! First of all, I am constantly analyzing the attitudes of my family….wondering, where did that come from? What may be contributing? So I find that the best way to get all in line is a little “pull in” time. That is when we have a …

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TherMOMeter: Setting The Temperature In Your Family

As a young mom, I had no idea that my mood could and would set the temperature for the entire house; actually I wasn’t aware yet, but I was the therMOMeter of my home. If I was in a bad mood, it eventually bled over and made everyone else have a bad mood too. My boys were little when I decided to test this idea out. I decided that no matter how I “felt” that day I would take a few notes and see how quickly my attitude started affecting how the kids (and even my husband) were behaving in …

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How to Make Your House a Joyful Home

    ‘Wives should feel that home is their place and their kingdom, the happiness of which depends mostly upon them.*” Ouch. You mean the happiness of my family depends mostly upon me???    As much as I would love this responsibility to fall on someone else’s shoulders, the fact is I am the one with the responsibility of constructing a joyful home. So how do we intentionally design our “place and kingdom”? Fashion a home which glorifies God and as a natural result love, joy and rest fill each room?  This will not come naturally. By nature we are …

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5 Things I Wish My Mom Had Told Me

 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 1:8 NIV   Sweet mamas, oh how I wish we could sit down over a cuppa coffee and talk through these together. I don’t have all the answers, but if you’ll let me, then I’d love to share with you 5 of the things that I wish my mom had told me when I first got married and started having kids.   My “babies” are now almost 21 and 19. By all accounts they are “adults” and so I’m coming to sit alongside you as a mama …

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How to find hope on the days that seem hopeless

As our girls were running around playing, my friend lamented to me the frustrations of her day. Her son got in trouble at school again, this time for biting. Her infant still isn’t sleeping through the night. Her husband is always at work and she feels like a caged lion, trapped in her home and ready to pounce. With every word she said, I got it. Don’t you? We all have those days, us mothers. Being a mom of three kids under five, I’m always running – either on adrenaline or exhaustion. A messy house is the norm and rest …

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The Unique Struggles of a Special Sibling

“He gets mad at the smallest things and always causes a scene. I’m embarrassed to be seen with him.” ” I feel ignored and resent how much time he demands from my parents.” Click To Tweet “Why can’t I just have a NORMAL family like everyone else?!” “As much as I am embarrassed to be around my brother, I worry about if he is OK without me.” “It hurts when people are rude to him… but I feel guilty and ashamed because I am the rudest to him of all.” “Who will take care of her if something happens to …

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