Where Do You Find Your Identity?
Okay…I’m gonna get a bit spiritual. I hope you don’t mind. My single mommy self just simply can’t survive without Jesus. I know it sounds…
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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The Single Mom ABCs
Accept where you are in life. Be ready for the hard questions. Challenge Yourself… You are stronger than you think! Depend on God. He will…
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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…
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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…
