I wanted to give you tips on teaching forgiveness to children. Instead, I find myself humbled by my lack of forgiveness toward my own children. I’ve written before that special needs parenting is hard, but I haven’t written yet about my journey of coming to grips with my neurodivergence. I’ve always attributed the chaos that […]
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“You’ve got this, mama!” “You’re a great mom!” These cheerleader phrases make me feel good about myself, until the days when nothing is under control and I treat my children unkindly. I don’t say this to gain sympathy. The fact is that some days that I act like a bad mom. And
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My husband came down the stairs to see me in tears. I threw up my hands and yelled “I’m done!” before storming off to the bedroom, leaving my husband to deal with one child’s meltdown and another child crying in a high chair. This wasn’t my most connected moment as a mom of a child
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Motherhood is a role with eternal implications. Stop and think about your reaction to those words. Do they make you roll your eyes as you consider that women have been doing this work for centuries? Or do these words weigh heavy on you – causing you to feel even more anxiety? I say that motherhood
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A year and a half ago, I wrote out my daily schedule as a stay at home mom with a toddler. With our newest addition this year, I decided to share my new stay at home mom schedule. My oldest thrives on a routine, and I believe that daily schedules for preschoolers are important, but
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When I started blogging, I wondered whether my “hobby” would be sustainable. Looking back, I see how God changed me. I wrestled with sins from several years ago. I processed my new life as a mother. God graciously revealed more of His character as I studied the Word. These are just a few
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Before adopting our son, I read The Connected Child. I attended the weekend-long Empowered to Connect Conference. In addition, I spent a year as a therapist, training to work with children who had been abused. I knew the right things to do, yet, after becoming a mother, I found myself doing the right things
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Moving with a toddler was not at the top of my bucket list. Moving with a toddler we adopted less than a year ago sounded terrifying. Yet here we are, post-move and settling into our new home. Or, at least, attempting to. After my research and thinking about our recent move, I came up with
When one of us is having a hard time demonstrating love, my husband or I will jokingly say, “bend it out!” This catchy phase has been a part of our vocabulary since we were engaged. In preparing for marriage, we read the book This Momentary Marriage by John Piper. Each week, we would discuss a
I am an introverted mother who lives in one ditch or the other. Let me explain. I have an all or nothing personality, so I either do something 100% (after analyzing it to death) or I just don’t do it at all. You can see this firsthand when examining my homemaking struggles. To me, cleaning
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