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Be Aware and Join Up
Awareness – it’s something I continue to tell my kids. Be aware of what Others are doing, be aware of what’s happening around you… They can get so distracted by the TV or their own desires they seem almost rude as they walk by me with my hands full and don’t offer to help or…
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Healthy & Whole Daughters – Equipping them for Life
It’s hard to look around in today’s world and feel safe to let my daughter go out on her own. Thankfully she is 10 so she can’t really leave me all too often, but someday she will, and honestly, I should probably let go a little more often than I do to help prepare her…
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We’re Never really Empty
Ever feel like you’ve got nothing left in the tank for anyone else? Ever feel like it’s been weeks, maybe years since you have felt full of life or just not running on empty? Being a mom and a wife sure adds to the running on empty emotions. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so glad…
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Love like a circuit – you know with boundaries…
Our topic for family devotional the other night was love. That at all times God calls us to give love when we’re mad when we’re sad, when people are mean to us and when they are nice – Always Love. Much of my life I’ve made the mistake of thinking that love meant that I can’t…
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Helper… Calling All Women to Renewal
There are few things that will offend a woman faster than when they are called a helper or told to submit to their husbands. I’m a strong woman and use to rebel against those words, myself, still struggle with it at times, but because it’s in the Bible and God is asking this of us, I started…
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4 Ways to be an Effective Mother
As moms, we have a million and one things going on at all times. I’ve done many triathlons and running events and have felt the overwhelming physical exhaustion followed by the triumph of finishing a race well. Being a mom is way more exhausting and much more terrifying. Running a race physically, the only thing to worry about…
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This Season of Chaos… Is My Perfect Soil
Personally, I am good at time management and organized tasks, but lately, it doesn’t seem to be working. With too many competing ‘top’ priorities, constant roadblocks, and limited time, I feel like I’m not even close to keeping my head above water, I’m full out drowning. Running is always my rest… Isn’t it funny how…
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Parenting Tip From Genesis
We all know the story of Cain and Abel. It’s the first murder in the Bible, and its cause was jealousy, anger, and self-righteousness. Able gave God his first and best, Cain gave too, but without much effort. Ever see your children do the same? Well, while reading this story, the other day verse 6-7…
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3 Things I leared about being ‘average’
Who wouldn’t want to build a spaceship out of a box to watch the movie Space Jam? My daughter cracks me up with the things she comes up with. She once wore workout gloves, fairy wings, and a bike helmet grocery shopping just to make it fun, boy was it ever! Best time I’ve ever…
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6 Ways Being a Mom Makes You a Great Leader
Leadership is having a vision, sharing that vision and inspiring others to support your vision while creating their own. – Mindy Gibbins-Klein Being a mom is a tough job, being a mom and a stepmom is the hardest job I’ve ever had. Through cleaning up puke, teaching responsibility, pushing away bad dreams and helping with mean…
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Sticking Power in Parenting
There is something about a slogan that can stick with us for a lifetime like “what would you do for a Klondike bar” or “once you pop, you can’t stop – Pringles.” But commercial slogans aren’t the only ones that have stuck with me. I also hear my dad saying “if you quit today you’ll quit…
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8 Ways to Teach our Kids Growth Mindset
Sometimes I get the joy of being an assistant coach at my daughter’s basketball practice. She wasn’t having much success getting her free throws to fall, so, I encouraged her to shoot them without jumping to see what happens. Well, you know how well our kids take direction from us… She weakly and stubbornly ‘tried'( aka – didn’t…
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6 {Step}Mom Rules I Live By
I have no idea how to blend a family. So I began a hunt for the secret to the perfect blending recipe. I found some good ideas but never found that one trick that always works. Well, as you can imagine, there is no secret to blending a family. The only thing we have to do…
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Playground Wisdom
The stories I hear from my girls about the stuff that happens on the playground angers me sometimes. I hate that they are faced with nasty speaking kids, ridiculous drama, friend battles, the pull of people trying to convince them they aren’t enough and a list of challenges they aren’t sure how to overcome. Seriously,…
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The Love Resolution
Happy New Year! It’s a time of resolutions and the hope to make this year better than last year. Working in the fitness industry, I’d always see a rush of people joining the gym, to never be seen again after January 16th. With only a couple of weeks worth of commitment, it would break my heart,…
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Peace In The Chaos
“Peace be with you” is something I say at church on Sunday mornings when the pastor asks us to greet one another. I must admit, saying these words always seems so odd to me, probably because I laugh in doubt at the thought of peace or that I’m not really sure what true peace looks…
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Oh Joy
Squeals of joy filled our house Christmas morning as the girls opened their gifts. It’s such a wonderful sound, those joyful squeals and giggles. It made me think about how much I want for them, that they would be filled with that kind of joy always. Parenting is a rough business, we set rules and…
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Our Family Behavior Chart
If we want to learn how to landscape our yard, make a turkey or ham for a holiday or make the the best and healthiest dessert; we turn to Pinterest or the internet for directions, but when it comes to raising our children, we are less likely to google how to’s, tips, rules or read…
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Finding Contentment – To the Moms & Wives who feel like they are failing
Highly motivated and high standards are good qualities unless they leave you feeling discontent with the things around you. I have a broken past full of poor choices and things I’d rather take back than continue to live with the guilt that hangs on my heart. In spite of my brokenness, God has saved me from…