Fresh. Calm. New.

It has been a beautiful break from the speed of life, these past couple of weeks. I do love new years and fresh starts.  Brad and I got to spend a few days away from our noisemakers… I mean darling children for a few days to celebrate our 10th anniversary.  It was beautifully refreshing.  The …

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Best of 4tunate 2012: Motherhood

      This week I’m taking some time off blogging to enjoy the holiday week and looking back on some of the best posts of 2012 on 4tunate, including MOTHERHOOD.  In case you missed a few or would like to re-read a couple, here’s some words to hopefully encourage your hearts! 1. 5 Things …

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To the Mom Who Is Anxious About Leaving Your Kids This Morning…

I think we’ve all spent the weekend holding our kids a little tighter, keeping them closer, and valuing their precious lives a little more.  The entire nation is shaken and mourning for those we’ve never met in a town named Newtown, Connecticut, and it hits especially hard for us moms.  I just kept thinking to …

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7 Ways to Raise Boys to be MEN {From a Mom in the Trenches}

{Click Image or Link to Print} When I took on the challenge to blog for 31 Days about Simple Outdoor Adventures for Boys, I knew it would stretch and grow me in a few ways.  However, I didn’t anticipate how it would allow me to fall more in love with boyhood. With each adventure, I …

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Finding Rest in the Motherhood Mayhem

Today is back to reality after a handful of days at the beach, and a couple of days of some truth-filled teaching.  My soul feels more at rest than it has in quite some time. It was so so good y’all.  And this weekend’s instruction reinforced a message that I needed to digest. “Rest is …

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Want to Join Me at dotMom Conference in Birmingham? {Ticket Giveaway}

I’ve been invited by Lifeway to attend the dotMom Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, this month.  DotMom created a “weekend that will encourage and refresh you, connect you with other moms, celebrate motherhood, and draw you closer to Christ”. The line-up and topics look great – and it covers the full scoop of motherhood. {Special needs, …

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Why the Outdoors Wins Over Laundry

I should be used to this cycle by now.  The laundry that wrinkles waiting to be folded. The laundry that sits folded in baskets begging to be put away. The baskets that are filled before I can say “Uncle”. Never caught up. Never finished. Never checked off my list. I’m sure it could get done …

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His Grace Is More Than Enough, When I’m Not Enough

Summer is threatening to leave us soon.  School supplies, pool closings, fall sports being practiced on any open field, are constant reminders that it will escape us once again. We’ll carefully pack up our five-year-old summer memories, and voyage into a new adventure soon. Change is hard, necessary, and unfamiliar, yet we’ll travel there together. …

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