In honor of Mother’s Day coming up, I’m going to share my current favorite activity to do with my boys…tea time! I love how it’s a culmination of wisdom from all the mothers who have influenced me. 1. The Preparation: While I heat the water, the boys select their tea. I’ve placed all my tea bags in a wooden ...
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When you keep over-reacting…{aka “Mama Bear runs wild”}
**The winner of the “Whits End Mealtime Devotional” giveaway is…JOY MALONE!! Congratulations!** This week I probably should be posting about Mother’s day or something. But I feel like I need to come clean about a struggle I’ve been having…it’s related to motherhood… More than once I’ve found myself enraged by some sort of injustice relating directly or indirectly to my children (like one of those crazed sitcom ...
Thanks for your very generous words. God bless you this Mother’s Day.
The one parenting question you need to answer
A few weeks ago I learned why we don’t often visit Bruce at work. Taking all four boys to eat lunch with Bruce to celebrate Quade’s 7 1/2 birthday and Knox’s 1st birthday was two bananas shy of a fruit basket. Watts greeted Bruce’s employees by lifting up his shirt. Price proceeded to pour salt & ...
Filling up my Momheart
Two years ago while ill with flu, I stayed in bed and followed the Momheart conference on Twitter (via @SomeGirlTweets). Here I listed all the wonderfully inspirational tweets. Last year I headed to the doctor’s office instead of the conference hotel, thinking I was going into labor. Fortunately it was a false alarm & I was able to attend Momheart after all (contracting every couple ...
One plan for dealing with misbehavior {aka “the time I forgot about consequences”}
When I had Knox, the older boys were just finishing up the second half of Spring semester. A month after he was born, I attended parent-teacher conferences. During one conference a teacher asked me, “When ____(insert name)___ does something he’s not supposed to do, what is his consequence?” Crickets. Oh shoot! Consequences? I had completely forgotten about consequences. What I wanted to tell her, but wisely didn’t, was ...
My {in process} Story
Loved this post and all the details you included so others could follow. Such a nice idea. You are the best. Thank you for including me in the list of mentors; I feel so honored! Thankful for you in my life.
LJ
of course!!! you have (& continue) to influence my mothering in sooo many ways! Very, very thankful for you. (hugs)
Loved this Heather, you’re doing a great job sharing life with so many, the ups and the downs, this post is definitely a keeper! Happy Mother’s Day
thank you Nancy for your constant encouragement! You are a treasure! Happy Mother’s (&grandmothers) Day
Love, love seeing these wonderful boys–and drinking tea–just like C.S.Lewis and Tolkien!
Thanks for your very generous words. God bless you this Mother’s Day.
Oh Sally, if you only truly understood the impact you’ve made on my mothering. To think your books & teaching are helping me raise 4 godly men and I’m only ONE of the many, many moms impacted by your life work? God bless you friend. Particularly on Mother’s day…a day I feel like you especially should get extra special recognition for helping moms around the world stand tall knowing they are worthy to receive praise! Blessings.
Love this, Heather!
Happy Mother’s Day to you!
{HUGs} Love Ya!
thanks susie for being a constant encouragement to me. Have a great weekend!
Interesting that you should post this… Believe it or not, the Lord put this very thought in my mind yesterday and I had already planned on doing this with my two boys! I’d never before considered it. I came across this post on pinterest this morning. What beautiful Providence! Thanks for the ideas!!
God is in the details. Thank you for taking the time to share this with me…truly. Let me know how it goes!
This is great! Sounds like a great way to have everyone connect.
I love this idea! My husband is a tea drinker (i’m a coffee girl myself
) so i know he will really appreciate this idea.
thanks sandy! Sometimes hot chocolate replaces the tea for the boys, and I drink coffee.
Oh I just LOVE this idea! Def going to try this! Thank you!