EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
I’ve been struggling lately with this debilitating feeling that I’m doing it all wrong with this whole motherhood thing. I can’t seem to get a schedule in place, I’m grouchy in the mornings, I occasionally yell at my kids when my patience has worn thin, and I just can’t keep up with all the other [...]
Ok, right now I just don’t like my child. It’s been a really bad stretch and nothing seems to help. I feel like I am the worst mother in the world. A true confession from a very normal mother. Let’s be honest, we’ve all felt this way at different times. Your one-year-old who still [...]
My children range in age from elementary to middle school to high-school. A few nights ago I was awake during the middle of the night going over my mental to do list. Sound familiar? Bake brownies for third grade chocolate unit. Not store bought box brownies, but brownies from scratch that resemble the cookbook recipe [...]
OK moms… if there is one thing I have learned over the years it is that kids get hungry and they like to snack. And if you never realized it before they will pretty much snack on what you place before them, thus you are the one who is teaching them what they should snack [...]
Since becoming a mom it has always confounded me that God would use my child’s love for me, to reveal to me His love for me. Yes, we know as parents we are called to train up our children in the way they should go and book after book tells us that their ability to [...]
Yesterday while getting ready for church, my daughter dropped one of THOSE questions. “How do you keep from getting pregnant? Is that why people get divorced?” I looked in the mirror at her reflection, and my mind spun backward in time to when she was five. Our family was driving along when she asked, “When [...]
It was Christmas Eve and I had to make one last run to the grocery store before I could continue making more delicious things to eat and then regret later. I had been to the store a few times that week already, so what was one more trip. Plus, all I needed was a few [...]
Christmas is a funny thing, isn’t it? Take the other night at my house: Christmas decorating night! We hauled out the boxes of decorations from the attic while Pandora churned out a wonderful blend of Christmas music. Our pre-lit tree somehow made a decision within the last year to have the top lights go on [...]
The holidays are coming… Does that phrase cause little tinkling bells of joy to ring in your ears? Or do sinister trombones of doom jolt your brain into pieces? I suppose I’m somewhere in the middle. Holidays are a cause for celebration; a special time to enjoy family. A time to kick back on the [...]
It was as if I was watching a Polaroid photo develop. First, a vague figure appeared. “You know, we have a family history of ADD.” Then, the shape took on more definition: “Is he a ‘young’ five? He has a hard time paying attention. And he got so frustrated when we were practicing handwriting.” And [...]
