How you answer this question affects everything. It’s a game-changer. It’ll make or break the way your day goes. But perhaps even more importantly, it’ll affect the way you THINK AND FEEL about how your day goes. ESSENTIALISM, FOR MOMS I’ve been listening to the book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown….
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How Do You Use Smartphones & Social Media as a Postpartum Mom?
I had our first baby in 2002. Smart phones basically didn’t exist. Facebook didn’t exist yet. Texting was still fairly new. Phones were still, pretty much, just phones. POSTPARTUM WITHOUT A SMART PHONE/TABLET In fact, for our first 4 babies, I didn’t have a smart phone or tablet to keep me awake in the postpartum…
Do You Multi-Task on Purpose?
We women tend to be multi-taskers. We try to squeeze as much as we can into a given moment. On any given day, a mom can be seen: carrying the groceries in (loaded down like a donkey), calling instructions to the kids over our shoulder, using the tiniest sliver of our index finger (otherwise weighed…
What Everybody Ought to Know About Moms & Sons
Have you seen the images on Facebook, trumpeting the amazing, lifelong, unbreakable bond between mothers and sons? Here are some quotes I’ve seen on these photos: “There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and son.” “The bond between mother and son… remains unchanged…
Are You Ignoring Your Mommy Radar?
Over the years, in myself and others, I’ve observed a tendency toward laziness as moms. I’m not talking about laziness in how we clean, decorate, dress our children, or save money for our family. No, in those ways we can be quite purposeful and diligent. What I mean is this: many of us tend to lazily overlook the…
10 Essential Self-Care Habits for Moms
A chart on my Facebook feed offered a humorous look at what “taking care of yourself” looks like before, and after, kids. According to the chart, taking daily vitamins turns into eating “one of the orange gummy vitamins your toddler won’t eat.” Reading a novel becomes reading the yogurt’s expiration date so you don’t poison the kids. 60…
7 Ways to Stop Being a “Mommy Martyr”
In Part 1, we asked the question- “Are You A ‘Mommy Martyr?’” That article gives a fleshing out of what it looks like to take on the identity of a ‘mommy martyr’ as well as some of the ways it affects our lives. Today (in Part 2), I want to look at 7 ways we…
A Hard Year, the Joy of Baby #9, and the Ideas that Drive Us
Well, it’s been more than a year since I’ve written here. And a lot happened in the last year. WHAT WE DID, BETWEEN JUNE 2017 & JUNE 2018: Through our extended family, we’ve experienced some life-changing pain– the death of two grandparents, and my brother went through an unexpected divorce. They married the same year we did, and though we…
April 2017 Round-Up: Podcasts & Posts
Mom On Purpose Podcasts from April 2017 Ep. 22: Fight Mommy Anger: Give Consistent, Prompt Discipline Ep. 23: Overcome Sexual Sin & Shame (Linda Dillow, Pt. 1) Ep. 24: Embrace Marital Intimacy as Godly & Good (Linda Dillow, Pt 2) NOTE: Episode 24 was the end of season 2 of the Mom On Purpose podcast. …
Ep. 24: Embrace Sexual Intimacy as Godly & Good (Linda Dillow, Pt 2)
As Christian wives, sexual intimacy can be a challenging issue. Worldly influences, shame, sin, and the busyness of life all make it difficult to embrace the beauty and goodness of God’s design for sex in marriage. Listen in as Jess talks with author & speaker Linda Dillow about: if being sexy, and enjoying sex, is OK for…