Category: Motherhood

Transformer Mommy
Motherhood

Transformer Mommy

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As a follow-up from my recent podcast on The Grace-Filled Home, I want to share the other side of motherhood – the side that shows our nature that gets frustrated, and not at all like Christ. I pray it will encourage you as a mom.

I’m a mother of daughters, so I’m not too familiar with the Transformer toys that I see the boys playing with at church, but I understand that they can change from one thing to another. I recently saw a “Mommy Transformer” when I was in town.

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Ten Things This Mom Would Do Again
Motherhood

Ten Things This Mom Would Do Again

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My mommy days are behind me now, and as I’m watching others in this special, yet demanding role, I have done some reminiscing over the years when my girls were young.  I have plenty of regrets, as all moms do, but I’m not going to dwell on those, because I can’t change them, and because doing so would not fall under the Philippians 4:8 things I should think about!  It’s in the past. But there are things that were so good about those days.  As I think back, I remember things that we did that I would definitely do again, if I had the chance.

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children · Motherhood

A Little Lunch

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Being a mother of two daughters, I don’t know a whole lot about raising boys.  But when I read in John 6 about the 5,000 people that had gathered to hear Jesus I thought it strange that a little boy would have a lunch with him. Remember the story?  The crowd was hungry, and there was no food to feed them.  Jesus asked Philip where they could buy enough bread to feed this large crowd.  Andrew spoke up and said to him,

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Feeling Like “The Worst Mom Ever?”
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Feeling Like “The Worst Mom Ever?”

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Mommy life.  What a blessing!  To be entrusted with a little life (or two or three) is a wonderful privilege that most girls dream of all their childhood.  But it’s tough some moments.  Some days.  Some weeks.  It’s easy to live under the feeling of not being good enough.

When your three year-old smears lipstick all over your mom’s new carpet, or your son throws a fit at the Dollar Store because you wouldn’t buy him the treasure he found, it’s easy to wonder if you’re the worst mom ever.

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How to Influence Your Children Beyond the Nest
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How to Influence Your Children Beyond the Nest

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Being a mother is filled with emotions. There’s joy when the baby is born! Joy at their first coos and words. Weariness at their crying and fussiness. Excitement at their understanding of new things like reading and numbers, and Who made them and the world they live in. No one could deny the feeling of anxiety when their child goes through hard things – whether it be just learning to obey or enduring the pain of a bully at school.

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