I LOVE being a mom but sometimes mothering is hard! Being a mom is AMAZING… but mothering isn’t always about butterfly kisses, tickles and giggles! Can any mommas relate? We don’t always know what to do or what to say or how to act and react to every situation we’re faced with as moms. In The Making of a Mom, I wrote about those days when mothering is hard… those times when we feel overwhelmed as a mom. The times when we struggle with how much attention is too much and how much attention is not enough… How do we …
Because Every Mom Needs a Break & a Chance to Win 2 Tickets to BETTER TOGETHER
There were moms and kids everywhere and I loved being in the midst of it all! It was Kid’s Fest in Orange Park and there was a flurry of activity was all around. Playgrounds, water games, face painting, train rides and so much more! It was a kid’s dream come true! It was fun! Fun! Fun! At least for the kiddos it was fun! And it was fun for the mommas too, but it was also hot and everyone was sweaty, and after a while, the kids became a little bit whiny… and for those moms with more than a couple …
Dear Bachelorette Andi Dorfman, you aren’t going to find true love…
The countdown for the news show KFXL began, I readied my station, checking audio levels, station channels, and performing mic checks as six screens in front of me displayed various shows on both ABC and FOX. My co-workers performed their various duties too when suddenly, we all yelled at the TV in disgust as The Bachelorette switched from scenes of Andi Dorfman gushing over the abs of one of the guys vying for her attention and scenes of the guys stripping all for the sake of charity. Granted that was two episodes ago, last week’s show was a bit better …
Does Holiness Really Matter?
Today, I’m super excited to introduce you to my sweet friend, Kathy Howard! Kathy is an author of many books and her love for Jesus and for ministry is inspiring! I wanted to take a few minutes to share with you about her newest book, Embraced by Holiness because, as moms and as ministry leaders, the need for holiness is huge! Little eyes are watching mommas…and if you’re a ministry leader, lots of eyes are watching you…they want to see how you act and react – so holiness needs to permeate every area of our lives. Two years ago, “Fifty Shades …
A Story Like Yours… or Maybe Not ~ But a God Who Makes Beauty Out of Ashes…OH…and a Conference You Just Can’t Miss!
Hey you. Yeah. You! The one who may have had a rough day, a bad past, or are feeling a little lost in this great big wide world. I want to share a bit of my heart with you about what God has brought me from and what God has brought me to. It’s not a rags to riches story…but is is beauty from ashes story. It’s a story about a girl…a girl whose story might be like yours…or maybe not. But it’s about a God who is really good at making beauty out of ashes. It’s a story about …
Motherhood — True Evolution
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 I believe in evolution. No, I’m not talking about the evolution of our galaxy and planet earth. I’m a creation girl all the way. To me, true, undefiled evolution is parenting at its finest. It’s incredible how my mom-skills have changed over the past twenty-two years. Today I barely resemble the mom I was my first day on the job in 1991. Whenever my college-girl comes home to visit, she wants to watch old home …
mourning your maternity leave {how to go back to work after baby}
I zip him up in his footed pajamas, the one that has the little smiling dinosaurs all on it. The house is quiet, not yet filled with our girls’ bedtime stories told by my husband. I hold my baby close to my chest in the silence of the dusk, soaking in his infancy. This was the moment I had been yearning for since I said goodbye to him nearly eight hours earlier. No one can really prepare a mother for the day she goes back to work. For weeks, the day had been stuffed in the back of my mind. …
5 Reasons Why “You Can Have It All” Is a Big Fat Lie
I’ve often wondered if it was a very lazy man who started the women’s lib movement. How could someone start a rumor that was designed to make women feel like they were missing out on something if they didn’t work a full time job outside the home, cook, clean, keep up the laundry, take care of the kids, play taxi driver for the children, do the grocery shopping, the clothes shopping, run errands, play nurse, kiss booboos, help with homework, instill character, attend birthday parties and play days, take their kids to baseball practice and ballet, bath their kids, tuck them …
A Broken Mother’s Day Blessing
“Mom,” his voice echoes with emotion knowing that he may not have another month with her. “Mommy!” his voice echoes through doors crying for arms to comfort him after a bad dream. “Mom,” she whispers over and over as she looks at the tiny bundle in her arms. Mom, the title rattles in her heart and mind, I just want to be a mom. “Mom?!” sarcasm drips from her words as she relives how her mother wronged her. Tomorrow is the day we celebrate mothers and motherhood. We paste saintly names to broken women who never tried. And talk of …
5 Ways to Assure that Your Kids Will Rebel
It’s a lie. Not every child rebels when they hit that magical age of 13. But some do. In fact, statistics tell us that the majority of kids rebel in one way or another. There are so many physical, emotional, hormonal and social changes that take place during those very crucial years that there are bound to be times when they balk at the boundaries their parents place on them. But resistance doesn’t have to become rebellion. Parents have the opportunities to sow seeds in their children’s heart, and to cultivate an environment that fosters faith, integrity, responsibility, morals and wisdom, …