How to be a Selfless Mom
(or at least get started that direction) 1. Share the cookies you have hidden. 2. Don’t sign your child up for an activity to help…
Mom Life
Motherhood doesn’t erase who you are—it refines it. In our Mom Life category, you’ll find faith-based encouragement for the Christian mom who wants to grow spiritually, rediscover her purpose, and care for her own heart in the middle of everyday life.
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Do as I Suggest Not as I Do Organizational Ideas
Oh that it wasn’t time to get organized again, although I’ve been “getting” organizing for the last 3 years. Yes, years. I wish that was an exaggeration. …
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The Great New Year’s Purge
You’ve probably done it yourself before. Packing up to travel home after all of the Christmas festivities and generous gifts of relatives who—like God—love to…
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Step Five out of Angry: Times of Unique Stress
I went in for my every-three-and-a-half-months, I’ve-put-this-off-too-long, please-cut-my-hair-so-it-doesn’t-look-like-I’m-wearing-a-lampshade appointment at the hairdresser. I have a headful of decidedly curly, i.e. forgiving but frizzy hair, quickly becoming more frizzy and less forgiving. I believe the dialogue went something like this.
Hairstylist: Are you under a lot of stress?
Me: Um, well, yeah. Some.
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Laundry Laundry Everywhere, No Really!
I think all I ever do is laundry. There are always baskets and baskets in one stage or another throughout my house. There is the…
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My Single Mom Fall-in Closet
Before I became a single parent, I had a walk-in closet — now I have a fall-in closet. I don’t mean that I fall over all…
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Buckets of Battered and Broken Beauty
On our first morning at the beach, my girls and I picked shells — gleefully filling buckets and buckets. All the shells were broken, hardly discernible…
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Would You have Noticed Her?
She was moving directly toward us. My husband called my name and said, “Get the camera!” While we were standing on opposite sides of the…
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The Power of The Selfless Unemployed
A few days ago, I spoke to a group called C3G that exists to help job-seekers in the Atlanta area network and support one another. I…
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Motherhood: A Small Life?
I sympathize a lot with a line of Meg Ryan’s character in You’ve Got Mail. One night on email, she wonders, “I lead a small…
