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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Mama Dates

We started this process of having one on one dates with the boys.  I’m half way through and already looking forward to starting all over again. It’s taken planning, and it has been accomplished as fast as I had hoped, but these 1:1 moments are too precious for words. I love seeing their faces light …

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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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Well Ain’t That Nifty, Look Who’s On Page 150!

Well lookie there! It’s my mug and Oprah’s in the same magazine! Check out O Magazine, October issue, page 150. They contacted me a few months ago for some time-saving advice from a busy mom and since I fit that description so well, I was published! Get out of town, Charlie Brown! {Although you might …

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To My 4 Kindergartners:

To My 4 Kindergartners: We’ve had quite the 5 year old summer, Boys. It’s been my fondest so far. This summer you’ve… spent warm afternoons at the pool stomped in the creek rode bikes around the block camped in the beauty of God’s creation screamed on your first roller coasters watched fireworks finished a race …

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How I’m Forcing Myself Into Becoming a Morning Person

Mornings and I do not get along.  We’ve had this dysfunctional relationship for quite sometime.  I feel beat up, cannot shake the tiredness, and have to talk and negotiate my way out from under the covers every single morning. My sleep meter never gets filled, and I pout about it through the morning routine. My …

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