Daughters

Things You Should Teach Your Daughter

On this Mother’s Day weekend, I look back over the years my girls were growing up, and smile at blessing of having them in our home. While Dale was always outnumbered in population, I think he knew it was pretty great to have the love and adoration of all his girls!

Being a mom of daughters was so sweet. Tea parties, dress-up clothes, playing house and store, baking together, baby dolls, and all things girly was a part of their early years. Then came music lessons, clothes, shoes, accessories, clothes, shoes and boys!

It’s such a wonderful privilege to be a parent, but it’s also so weighty, isn’t it? There’s so much to teach a child to prepare them to know and love God, to know who God made them to be, and to be ready to live independently as adults. But where do we even begin? May I give you moms who have children at home a few ideas of things you need to be teaching your daughters? Here’s a short list in several categories

Spiritual matters

  • What sin is.
  • What Jesus did to pay for their sin.
  • How to pray about everything.
  • What it means to be saved.
  • Eternal security
  • Who wrote the Bible and why we need to read it daily.
  • Verses about salvation, God’s character, the significance of the Bible, God’s love
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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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Motherhood

Feeling Like “The Worst Mom Ever?”

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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Home making · Work

Easing Household Chores: 8 Strategies for a Better Attitude

This week I started the Maytag, Messes and Meals series here on my blog. Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I go about my responsibilities and work at having a right heart while doing them. Yes, I must work at that!

To be honest, this week when I attacked our PILE of dirty clothes after being gone for nearly a week, I started to moan inwardly. Then the Spirit of God brought to my mind how thankful I could be that I was now home and able to do laundry. Oh, that changed my attitude!!

There are simple methods we can employ to make all the work we do in the home sweeter and even easier. I’ve tried to be mindful this week about what those strategies are. Here’s my list that is truly helpful to me. I hope it helps you, too!

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