motherhood

I’m excited to share some relationship ideas via the I Am Mom summit starting today.  (If you haven’t registered, get on over HERE to get yourself situated…).  I think my video will be up during the 1:00 hour today, Mountain Standard time…maybe near the end of the hour.  My parents…

At church a few weeks ago we sat behind a family with three wriggling young boys.   They made me miss my babies, two sharing my lap at the same time, smashing Cheerios, occasionally letting out a wail.  Me helplessly wrestling to keep my skirt down.     But those…

As parents we are “trainers” in so many ways. We train our children to talk, to walk, to eat, to smile in the beginning. We train them to say “please” and “thank you,” to look adults in the eye, to build a tower with blocks, to take turns, to read,…

The time has finally arrived. The Mom Conference is here! Be sure to register if you haven’t over here: MOM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION From there you will get links to tune right on in and get so inspired by everything from how to handle sibling rivalry to nurturing your marriage to…

Ok, so I can’t believe how fast this MOM CONFERENCE dealio is coming up! NEXT WEEK!   October 11-13th.   That’s Tuesday through Thursday and I’m pretty excited. I haven’t really described what exactly this Mom Conference thing actually is very clearly, so here we go: The Mom Conference is…

Happy Mother’s Day to all the inspiring Mothers in my life. I’ve meant to come log in here all day to write up my motherhood thoughts, oh boy I have a whole slew of them.  I’ve been thinking about my grandmothers, mine and Dave’s, and their grandmothers too.  And how…

I wrote yesterday’s post in a hustle. Such a hustle that I forgot to put in some kind of important stuff: Like how the girls were huffy at each other all afternoon before we left. And how two of them started howling when I suggested we make it fancy and…

My memory is fuzzy in many respects. I can’t remember a lot of details of things (the reason why I’m now such an avid record-keeper), but even without the details I can remember feelings.  And those velvety nostalgic feelings wash over me whenever I think of the Nutcracker.  I love…

A while back we revamped our Saturday jobs. And I’ve been meaning to share the new system ever since because it works! I’ve always been a big believer of what I call the “three P’s” of cleaning:    1) PRINT out those jobs so that kids can see what needs…

I know a lot of moms with kids who have graduated and moved away.  My mom, Dave’s mom, a bunch of friends, sisters-in-laws, random strangers on the street.  So this is my question: Why in Heaven’s name did they not warn me how awful it is?! Now, I’m well aware…