For Moms

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb

With a new baby and a new year, the past several weeks have been a time of reflection and refocusing on my priorities and roles. Coming out of the survival mode of pregnancy, I feel more energized and motivated to start projects, make plans and easily get too busy. From experience, I know for me this leads to lots of dabbling, shallow involvements, misplaced priorities and plain old grumpiness. These are a few resources that help me come back to what is most important

Joyful Parenting Manifesto:: From Ann Voskamp at A Holy Experience. I have this hung on my refrigerator. It challenges and inspires me everyday. Lately, I have been focusing on #6, #7 and #9. Such good reminders...

Super Mom vs. Abiding Mom:: I definitely needed this. It's SO easy to fall into the lie that we are to be perfect moms, raising perfect kids. But the truth is that it is God doing the redeeming work, our work is only to abide in Him and to point our children towards Him.

Praying for your Children Calendar:: From Inspired to Action. Overwhelmed by how to pray for your kids? Don't know where to start? If it's ultimately God who does the growing, then what better way to spend our time than asking our Heavenly Father to make our kids more like Him?

Hope these bless you as much as they have me!

Oh, and here's why I do what I do...

my rockstar baby ballerina fairy...dressed for bed

sweet little buddy