Finding Grace-Filled Confidence in the Chaos
Thank you for being here at The Purposeful Mom! I wanted to share these Character Cards with you that you can use during your devotional or prayer time with your children. The idea for these cards came out of an earlier post I wrote about how we do devotions with our children. During that time, we use prayer […] Read more…
Now that my third child is 16 months {how can it be?}, I’m finding that I’ve come a long way in mothering knowledge. Believe me, I still have plenty of learning left, but at the same time there are some things important things I understand now that I didn’t have a clue about after my first […] Read more…
My husband is a full-time pastor with two churches, which makes things a little crazy on the one day of the week when we’re supposed to be “resting”. I thought I’d share with you a {Sun}day in the life of a pastor’s wife with a 6, 4 and 1 year old along for the ride. During church, […] Read more…
For the last day of the Joys of Mothering series, Michelle from Live a Life of No Regrets shares about how she learned to trust the Lord when she was diagnosed with cancer and how she continued to homeschool her children at the same time. {You can read the rest of the posts in this series here.} […] Read more…
Thanks for joining us for the Joys of Mothering series! You can read the previous posts in this series: The Joy of Having Boys & Finding Joy in the Midst of a Tantrum._______________________________________It had been one of those days–you know the ones! Dirty dishes were stacked high in the sink, so high in fact that I […] Read more…
Thanks for joining us for the Joys of Mothering series! You can read the other posts here! When I was pregnant with our first child my husband and I were so happy to be having a little boy. Fast forward eighteen months and we were expecting child number two. I was really hoping for a girl our second […] Read more…
Thank you for joining us for the Joys of Mothering series! This week, some wonderful bloggers will be sharing how they find joy in the different moments of motherhood. Today, I’m happy to welcome Erika from Slowly Natural! I don’t have perfect kids. Shocking, I know! In my house, at any given moment, you might […] Read more…
I remember the excitement in the air when I was pregnant with my first baby. There were phone calls, hugs, shopping and eight (yup, that’s right!) baby showers. Our first at just a couple weeks old! It tends to be that the second and third child don’t get as much pomp and circumstance. Of course they are […] Read more…
Welcome to day six of the Spring Into Summer series! I hope you’ll take a few moments to read the previous posts!Soon we’ll be gearing up for our semi-annual 12+ hour trip to visit the grandparents! And with that brings the challenge to keep our three children, ages 6, 3 and 1, occupied and the whole family at […] Read more…
I am so blessed to be the mother of a beautiful three-year-old daughter. This blond-haired, blue-eyed little girl is spunky and sweet, a lover of all things pink and her baby brother’s biggest fan. She is daddy’s constant companion to the post office, the nursing home and the dump {to drop off brush} and she […] Read more…
Do you ever feel as though your children are a burden? That they are keeping you from doing the many things you used to do before you were a mother? Do you ever ponder how much free time you’d have if you didn’t have kids (although you’d probably fill it up with something else)? photo […] Read more…
Here is the second of two beautiful guest posts from Marci of Thankful Homemaker. (You can read Communicating Biblically With Our Children if you missed it!) “Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.Blessed is the man […] Read more…
I’m very excited to have my first ever guest post! Marci from Thankful Homemaker is writing a two-part series, looking first at how we can promote good communication with our children! Do you dream of the moment when every time you speak to your child they respond to you joyfully with, “yes mom”, “I […] Read more…
What does the word “exasperate” mean? That was my question as I studied verse 4 of chapter 6 of Ephesians. Miriam Webster says this: exasperate (verb) to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts (small children can exasperate their parents with endless questions about why this or that is so) synonyms – aggravate, […] Read more…
So I changed the name of my blog some time ago to “The Purposeful Mom“. I still have yet to do many of the things I’ve set out to do here but one thing that got me thinking the other day was this: What does it mean to be a “purposeful mom”? We only have […] Read more…