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When Your Kids Call You Out
If there’s anyone who “tells it like it is” it’s our kids.
They don't mince words when they speak. They don’t sugarcoat things so it sounds politically correct or palatable. They don’t hide behind nice-isms and platitudes.
And, often, their honest words are exactly what we need to hear.
Let’s take a sample of some of the comments ...
Motherhood – The Freedom of Not Being Enough
There was a time when I would grab my son’s soft baby feet and squish them and smush them and foist way too many kisses on them. Yeah, that was before said feet started to resemble... hooves. About a decade later, forget squishing his feet, I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole. (Sorry, kid, ...
Motherhood: The Freedom of Not Being Enough
Women, particularly moms, are increasingly being told that we are “enough.” Best-selling books, popular blogs and even sermons constantly repeat the “You are enough” mantra. But does that phrase help grow our dependence on God? Is it even true? This Bible Plan counters that we are not enough, and challenges us to lean on the ...
Dear Mama, Your Love Doesn’t Divide, It Multiplies
You couldn’t wait for your firstborn to have a sibling.
You had visions of the two of them sharing the Peppa Pig tent that’s swallowed half the real estate in your formerly formal living room.
You’d pictured them building teetering LEGO towers together.
You’d even planned on how you’d settle those inevitable sibling spats.
But what you hadn’t predicted was the ...
7 Words Moms Should Stop Saying
There she is. Running after her toddler or kissing away a boo-boo or looking like she hasn’t slept in weeks. There she is rocking the baby until her arms are numb, playing puzzles on the floor, eating leftovers because she forgot her own meal. There she is pouring her heart and soul into her little ...
I was “that” mom today…
Kids packed off to school.
Coffee down.
Time to unload the dishwasher.
It's then I see it. A mason jar. Not just any old mason jar - the jar that was supposed to hold the plant that Sonny boy was supposed to take with him to school on Monday morning.
Except today is Monday morning. And the jar is looking up ...
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