Mothering

Why Every Moment Matters When You’re a Mom (and Giveaway Winners!)

August 13, 2011

Find me this week over at Raising Homemakers, where I share how a difficult loss this summer has encouraged me not to waste a moment of the time that I have as a mother.
Winners of My Buttered Life eBook
We've got some winners for the popular ebook giveaway last week. My Buttered Life is a short [...]

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Eliza Spurgeon: Legacy of An Apt and Godly Helper

August 9, 2011

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
A womanly legacy worthy of passing on

A while back I began compiling a collection of mini-biographies of Christian women, single, married and widowed, whose lives might inspire us to live godly in this present age as that relates to all of the divinely created helper functions devout women have Biblically and [...]

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Four Steps to a More Peaceful Home

August 5, 2011

A peaceful home is something many of us long for. A place where relationships are healthy and spirits are happy, where we can rest our weary bones and just be ourselves.
There's no denying that creating a peaceful home takes work. The road to peace is not smooth or easy, but it's worthy!
I have found the [...]

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Training Kids to Help in the Kitchen

July 28, 2011
Caden-kneading-bread

Knowing how to prepare real, whole foods is an absolutely necessary life skill that every child should learn. Children who are not taught the basics of food preparation will end up defaulting to processed, packaged foods, simply because they haven't learned to make anything better.
If we don't take the time to teach them, how will [...]

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Feeding Babies: A Relaxed, Common Sense Approach

July 21, 2011
baby eating foot

This post was originally published over a year ago, but I continue to find questions on feeding babies and introducing solids in my inbox, so I thought that this was worth re-posting. And with another year to see how Johanna has responded to this style of feeding, I can say with even more certainty that [...]

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The Friends and Foes of Motherhood

July 15, 2011

Motherhood isn’t easy.  There are many ways to describe motherhood - joyful, challenging, unique, consuming, wonderful, exhausting, humbling, rewarding - but easy isn’t one of them.
As mothers, our greatest privileges and our greatest joys in life also happen to be some of our greatest challenges.
There are things we can do to [...]

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I Wasn’t Trained to Be a Mom (But I Can Still Love It)

June 23, 2011

Sometimes I end up rummaging through past posts for one reason or another, and a post that I have written (and forgotten about) will jump out at me and I am freshly inspired by whatever it was that spurred me on to write the post in the first place.
The quote below is from just such [...]

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At Raising Homemakers: Have You Had a Date With Your Daughter Lately?

June 22, 2011

Today you can find my debut post up over at Raising Homemakers. Here's an excerpt from it:
We said good-bye to Daddy and her siblings, made a quick stop for yummy drinks, and then pulled up to the movie theater. Movies aren’t generally something that we go out to see, especially with the offerings in the [...]

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Parenting with Humility: From A to Z

June 14, 2011

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
A Devotional Birthed for New and Experienced Moms
Last November, after presenting a devotional at a baby shower, I was asked by many of the young moms there if they could have a copy of the talk. So I posted it post it to my blog over the next few days [...]

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Encouragement for Mamas of Strong Willed Children

June 7, 2011

By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
The other morning I was snuggling with my three year old daughter on the couch right after she had woken up.  I love those times of the morning, where my kids are bleary eyed and will actually sit with me for extended minutes while I kiss their heads, [...]

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