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Help For Moms: Why We Should Admit How We Really Feel

February 22, 2019

Help for Moms why we should admit our feelings. Motherhood and fear, anxiety, being a mom who has fear. Coping with the many changing emotions of motherhood. For women.

Help For Moms Moms, do you try to hide from your feelings? Me: Sometimes I do. Do you ignore your feelings and just keep going through your life on autopilot because life’s crazy, busy, chaotic, and it’s just easier to trudge on? I’m guilty of doing this. Do you have fears plaguing you in your journey through motherhood? Yes, ma’am, I do, and uh-huh, boatloads of them, and an ocean-full too. This website uses affiliate links. Please see disclaimer in the top bar menu. Thank you:) My ... Continue Reading...

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21 Ways to Honor Your Mom on Mother’s Day After She has Passed Away

May 11, 2018

21 Ways to Honor Your Mom on Mother's Day After She has Passed Away

Being without your mom on Mother's Day is super hard. It just is and I am so sorry for your loss. Many people are shopping for gifts and making plans to spend the day with their moms, but those who have a mother who has passed away can't do that. For people who have children, they can still celebrate Mother's Day with their own kids, but they still are missing a giant piece of the day, their mom. Regardless, I think it's important to still celebrate the day. I'm sharing ways to honor ... Continue Reading...

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Movies With Christian Values from Pure Flix and Easy Anytime S’mores

July 19, 2017

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Family movie night has always been a special time in our house. Our family has gathered together to watch a movie and either have pizza or snacks many times over the years. We have found an awesome Christian movie and tv show subscription service online called Pure Flix. We've recently enjoyed Movies With Christian Values From Pure Flix and Easy Anytime S'mores at our house (simple recipe at the end of this post). As a Christian mom, I am very impressed with Pure Flix and I'm going to share with ... Continue Reading...

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Filed Under: Faith, Family, Product Review Tagged: Christian, kids, Parenting

An Unplanned Lesson in Giving to a Homeless Man

December 30, 2016

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An Unplanned Lesson in Giving An unplanned lesson in giving to a homeless man unfolded before my son and I one Sunday this holiday season. As we drove out of a parking lot we approached an old man standing on the mini sidewalk island between the in and the out of the parking lot. We had just bought a present for my son’s friend and next we were heading to the birthday party. There stood a man. He stood in a spot I hadn’t seen someone stand before even though I’d been to this store many ... Continue Reading...

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My Week Long Baby; Early Miscarriage

October 21, 2016

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This post contains an affiliate link to a book I found helpful. Please see my disclaimer page. This post has a link to my article "My Week Long Baby" about my story of early miscarriage on Her View From Home (scroll down for the link). Miscarriage is so common. I find when talking with a group of women, many voice their experience with this tragedy. My miscarriage happened very early on in the pregnancy, but my brain still built so many plans for that baby. My brain went crazy with many ... Continue Reading...

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A Youth Football Team to Feed the Children

October 10, 2016

Children Helping Children Children helping children is one of the most beautiful phrases I have ever heard. It rolls off my tongue so joyfully. I had the joy of watching a group of amazing kids who came together as a football team to feed the children. There is an amazing charity out in the world called Feed My Starving Children (FMSC). They provide a space and the means for people to come and volunteer to pack food in bags to be delivered to starving children around the world. The ... Continue Reading...

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Filed Under: Faith, Family, Motherhood, Youth Sports Tagged: Feed My Starving Children, kids, kids volunteer, volunteer, youth sports team activity

Dear Bad Guys of the World,

September 1, 2016

Dear Bad Guys of the World, Go away bad guys, you are like a fly in my lovely glass of wine.   You don’t deserve to be here in my relaxation, in my unwinding, in my evening. Get out of my news bad guy. I don’t want you there. I want to hear about happiness, generosity, love, and new birth. I don’t want you to ruin my good time. You fall into my wine glass out of nowhere, uninvited. Your germs may be killed by the alcohol of my wine, but you still went in where you ... Continue Reading...

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A Letter to my Mother in Heaven

August 9, 2016

Dear Mom, I miss you. I wish you were here. I can tell you a mom is irreplaceable for a child. When a mom dies, her child is no longer whole. The loss makes it hard to breathe. That child flails in the wind like a cottonwood seed. A piece of fluff that gets knocked about the world by the wind. Sometimes I landed on solid ground, sometimes I landed in a pond and almost drowned. But I’m still here. I survived. In the year after your death my dreams plagued me whether they were about your ... Continue Reading...

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Filed Under: Faith, Family, Motherhood, Where else you can find me Tagged: faith, family, Heaven, Mom, motherhood

Five Ways to Teach Kindness to Kids

July 28, 2016

Kindness as a way of life is something I want to teach my three kids. The three of them fight; I mean they fight a lot. Of course they fight, they are siblings. But I also see kindness woven in between the fights like threads of shining hope that one day they will be kind adults. They are knit together as siblings like a mat of ever-changing interactions and some days I'm frustrated by more angry threads than kind threads. I let the kind threads shine through by highlighting them and ... Continue Reading...

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Filed Under: Faith, Family, Motherhood, Where else you can find me Tagged: Christmas, faith, kids, son, volunteer

Daily Random Acts of Prayer

July 9, 2016

I practice random acts of prayer multiple times daily because I feel compelled to do it. I pray when I see someone who looks like they need a prayer. The urge to pray falls on me like a strike. I am desperate to do it. I pray for the woman buying her toothpaste. Her sadness speaks to me by the lines on her eyelids. There is worry I see glimpsing at her eyes, tangible worry I can almost caress. Her eyes are slightly dulled with the chore of shopping. I worry about her home life. I wonder what ... Continue Reading...

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