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How Do You Spend All That Time with Your Kids?

I get asked a lot, "How can you spend all that time with your kids?" My response? How can I not spend time with my kids!

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Lisa} Often time’s people ask me how do I spend all of my time with the kids and not pull my hair out.  When I add that I’m a homeschooling mom they shake their head in disbelief and comment on how … [Read more...]

Am I Stealing My Child’s Innocence?

How should I talk to my kids about sex? Am I stealing my child's innocence by explaining these life lessons too early?

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Sherry Parnell} A toddler’s questions are relatively easy to answer since as parents we are armed with the basic knowledge to satisfy our little one’s curiosity. Even when these inquiries turn to … [Read more...]

A Mom Mission Statement

Keep your 'why' as a mom front and center by writing a mom mission statement. This helps so much on the challenging days!

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Jaimi} On the good days I do not worry about it much. Those days run smoothly, I get to feel like a great mom and my reasons for being a stay-at-home mom are clear. You could say my mission … [Read more...]

Action Plan for the Tired Mom

Tired moms! Make a plan to take care of YOU, value your work, and recharge. This is a plan of action for the tired mom.

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Lisa Brown} Do you burn out from being a stay at home mom from time to time?   You need a plan of action for the tired mom! Maybe you are burned out right now and you wonder how you are going to … [Read more...]

New Year’s Resolutions for Moms

Setting new year's resolutions for moms can seem silly, but it is not. You are growing and changing every year-just like everyone else. Motherhood does not take from who you are, it gives you more. Make some resolutions for the year ahead with these ideas.

} When we become moms, we do not give up everything for our kids. It feels like it many times because we really do not get to choose when it’s time to eat, sleep or even take a shower. That all is done as a knee-jerk reaction to the cues we receive from our families. It’s a bit melodramatic to say we lose everything, give up all that is “us” and take hold of a different … [Read more...]

When Kids Make Bad Decisions

When your kids make bad decisions, it can feel like your own failure as a parent. It's not all about you, moms.

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Heather} The other day I was beyond psyched when my husband let me know he would be picking up the kids from school. Was I going to relax and sip some coffee? Drinking coffee at 2 pm will ensure … [Read more...]

Number One Christmas Gift of the Year

What is the number one Christmas gift this year? It just may be the best Christmas gift to give someone every year.

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Lisa Brown} I’ve been struggling with feeling lonely and forgotten. My friends and family members have been busy with their own life and schedules.  I have too. I’m personally going through a … [Read more...]

Stop the Mom Shaming

Stop the mom shaming! Blogs, opinions, and none of them know what is best for your child but you.

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Jaimi} Are there blog posts you just refuse to read? I have seen many in my newsfeed lately. The ones with titles that make my blood pressure rise before ever clicking on the link. It all boils down … [Read more...]

Life without a Mom Friend

Life without a mom friend is lonely. You see moms that look like best friends and want that for yourself. This too shall pass...

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Heather} It was a day like any other. I was cleaning and doing laundry, you know all the fun parts of being a mom, when I saw my neighbor laughing out in her front yard with her best … [Read more...]

No Regrets Parenting

No regrets parenting may not be possible today, but over the long-term, we can make choices that will leave us with a no regrets parenting approach .

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Lisa} I will never forget this one particular day I had with my daughter when she was four. It was one of those days where I didn’t get out of my pajamas until late in the day.   I had a horrible … [Read more...]

The Shared Experience of Motherhood

Motherhood is more than the act of being a mom, the birth of a child, yes, it is a shared experience that involves many more lives than our own.

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Jaimi} Your family sees you at your best, your worst, your beautiful moments and the ones that you wish you could do over again. They see you in your pajamas with bed head, in your fancy … [Read more...]

Handling the Stress of being a Mom

Tips for handling the stress of being a mom-we place too much pressure on ourselves, and this is how we can stop!

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Heather} Most of the immense pressure I've been feeling as a mom is self-induced. It is me getting in my own head. It is me pushing too hard and not allowing myself grace. Maybe it's because I'm … [Read more...]

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