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Category: Momlife

Where’s The Owner’s Manual

Don’t you sometimes wish that being a parent came with an owner’s manual? I have so many times just wished I could look into a book and it would tell me exactly what I needed to do. Being a parent is one of the hardest things in the world; it tests everything physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. If you saw us in mass last night with our youngest I was completely worn down of all four of those things. The whole parenting realm is a big trial and error process and some trials are harder than others. Right now we are experiencing a couple of those trials with our girls now and it has been hard. We have had our days but I will not lose sight of our purpose as their parents. Expect progress not perfection. The Better Mom Devotional. Ruth Schwenk. Zondervan, 2018. Parenting is definitely a constant state of progression because just when you think you have it all figured out something will throw you into a tail spin and you are back to square one. Recently I started a devotional called The Better Mom Devotional by Ruth Schwenk. It has been so…

The False Race

This morning as I was doing my bible study I knew immediately that God put this in my path for a reason. For now I am going through a season in motherhood where I am struggling finding my meaning, my purpose, and it is such a hard struggle and I think even more so when you are a stay at home mom. I have struggled with this off and on during my eight years of staying home with a couple more years to go and it can feel like you are going nowhere. These feelings of loneliness and of being unworthy creep in when you least expect it. I am writing this because I am convinced that I am not the only other stay at home mom that feels this way. In the bible study, First Be A Follower, which is created by my most favorite author Hannah Brencher, one of the first few things I read of her hope for people doing this study was, “That we give up the false race of “getting there” to learn how to be here now.” In my personal journey as a stay at home mom I always feel…