Surviving Sunday Morning

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If you are a mother and regular church attender than you know how stressful Sunday mornings can be. they can leave a mother an exhausted and stressed out mess by the time she reaches the pew for worship. This isn’t the “goal” or the “desire” of our hearts but many times we don’t see any […]

Family Fun

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Here in the mid-west we have had a bunch of winter weather lately that has given us lots of opportunity for family fun. First up was a sledding session! We had a couple inches of snow and then quite a bit of sleet on top of that. It made for some great sledding. The sleds went […]

Toddler Training – Part 1 – Obedience and Sitting Still

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Is there even such a thing as toddler training? Spend time at any park, play place, mall, or grocery store and most of the time the “trained” individual seems to be the parent. Toddler training isn’t often popular in our society but most people don’t realize how much more pleasant life could be if more households […]

Wordless Wednesday – Family Chores

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During my first trimester I can often be found lowering my standards on how clean we keep the house. Due to morning sickness and lack of energy, I maintain the needed items and the rest are considered “extra” and only touched when I have extra energy. Many times our normal family chores don’t even get […]

Wordless Wednesday.

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  My taste tester. She loves momma’s Italian Salad. And she is always more than willing to help me make it for dinner. I love spending time in the kitchen with my children. Some days their constant chatter while I am working tends to overwhelm me and I want to just send them away. But […]

Love Your Enemies – A Spiritual Lesson

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The other day I over heard this spritual lesson from one child to another. I love these little tidbits of life and I don’t want to forget them. Plus, many times, they can speak volumes to our lives as adults. Children see things as black and white. They think in such concrete ways and we […]

And then there were 8. – Pregnancy

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Jeremiah has an announcemnet. He is going to be a …………. If you didn’t see my announcement on Facebook around the first of the month, we will be welcoming our 6th child into our home in August 2013. We are all very excited. The sides have been choosen and everyone has made sure to put […]