Encouraging Mammas Through Grace-filled Conversations
Mammas, move hell and high water to keep your word to your kiddos. When you follow through with what you say you are going to do, it teaches your kids that you can be trusted, and also teaches your kids that you shouldn’t be ignored. Often times, in the heat of the moment when we’re [...]
As parents, we sometimes shy away from having hard conversations with our kiddos for various reasons, but in talking to numerous parents, one of the main reasons we shy away is because we don't feel equipped to have these conversations with our kiddos. Well good news! You no longer have to feel ill-equipped to talk [...]
Mammas! I LOVE Easter and all that it entails, but ya girl woke up HUNG OVER from Easter goodness yesterday! The preparation the days leading up to it, getting everyone photo ready the day of, the joy, the excitement, the celebration, and then the clean up. ALL of it finally caught up to me yesterday! [...]
It’s a buzz word that we all have heard a million times over lately. We all know we need to do it, and probably encourage others to do it, but if we’re being honest, as mammas, how much of our encouraging efforts do we point back towards ourselves? We are the hardest workers we know, [...]
Over these recent years, I’ve become more aquatinted with grief than I would have liked to have been. (If you’re new here, about two-ish years ago, our girls lost their Meemaw and their Grammie within seven months of each other.😔) As I’ve journeyed through Grief’s winding roads, I’ve learned a few things about it: it [...]
I want to hold her and protect her forever. It was a lot easier to imagine doing that when she was this small. Now that she’s 10, I’m becoming painfully aware that I won’t always be able to shield her from all the world wants to throw at her. This week in parenting offered me [...]
It is a debate that seems to resurface in waves throughout our existence. Sometimes the waves are small gatherings of wake washing upon the shore, and other times the waves are 6-foot tall swells; perfect for surfing, but disastrous for discussion. It can be a polarizing topic that causes people to tip toe around it… [...]
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;” John 11:25 NIV The weight of what Jesus did on the cross and what it means for my life has never been glossed over. It consistently leaves me in awe, but the [...]
I set out to say all of these things in written form, but each time I tried, the words on the screen just couldn't justify the emotions I was feeling. So here you go. My first ever Vlog. (Video Blog)
Dear America, It appears that you are going through a bit of an identity crisis right now. I have been through a few of those in my lifetime as well. What has helped me get through these confusing times is when people who know me well have reminded me of who I am. I would [...]
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