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Eliminate Summer Boredom…Once and For All

Parenting

It is about this time every year that I start counting down the days until summer break. The last few weeks of school are nothing short of exhausting between plays, concerts, recitals, school projects, AP exams, finals, and everything in between. I am more than ready for a few weeks of unstructured relaxation…because that is what summertime with five children at…
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Mothers Everywhere…You are Good Enough!

Motherhood· Self-Worth

I remember my first real Mother’s Day. I was newly pregnant with my oldest child and overcome with excitement about his upcoming arrival. As I sat in church that morning and listened to talk after talk about amazing mothers, I was determined to be an “angel mother” just like them. I was convinced that I was born to be a mother, that I would be able…
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Why I Have GIVEN UP on Clean Floors

Family Life· Humor· Motherhood

I have given up on clean floors. Given up. There was a time when I could walk across my floor barefoot without feeling like I was walking on sand. Not real sand, mind you. The kind of sand that is made when a bag of crackers or cereal is spilled all over the floor and then crushed into a sand-like substance by ten little…
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Overwhelmed with your current stage of motherhood? Remember these three things.

Encouragement for the Overwhelmed Mother

Motherhood

Although I had dreamed for as long as I could remember about being a mother of eight children, I had no idea what I was getting into when the nurse handed me, my first newborn son. After a few months of life with a baby, I was thinking, “There is NO WAY on this good earth that I will ever make it to eight!!! In…
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You Are His Hands

Faith· Purposeful Living

A couple of years ago, my family was in the middle of a rather difficult time. Carson, who was then four years old, was experiencing some major health problems that took away his ability to walk for the better part of a year. Around that same time, we felt strongly that we needed to move in order to clean up our…
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mamas of littles

Please, Time… Just Stop

Motherhood

It has been coming on for a while now, but I suddenly feel like a neon sign is constantly flashing these words in front of my face:  “Hold on to Your Hats and Glasses While You Watch Time Disappear.” Perhaps that is because Jordan is learning to drive and that he is still nervous to get behind the wheel…just like I was at his…
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