Joyful Womanhood

Good Books to Read About Growing Things

The growing season is about to take off, so let’s explore books with our kids about gardening and growing things. Recently, I was reminded at how much my children love books — and love being read to! I ordered a copy of one of my favorite books ever (not sure why we didn’t already own [...]

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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will [...]

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Stop Whining & Start Living: Understanding the Power of Our Words

What we tell ourselves — and the griping that we do — has a direct effect on our circumstances. My friend Jamie offers some alternatives to whining. The following is a guest post by Jamie Martin of Steady Mom and Simple Homeschool. There was a time when I used my words in a bad, self-defeating [...]

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The High Cost of Watering

Motherhood is like watering the lawn. It’s costly. But the results are totally worth it. Warm weather has arrived. Yeah! A few weeks ago we received a reminder from our gardener (included in our rental) that we should up our lawn watering. The result?  A higher priced water bill — and a lusher lawn. Every good [...]

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Needing You More

As my children grow older, I realize finally what my friend Cathy meant when she said my children would need me more, not less, as they approached the teen years. My three younger children, 7, 5, and 3, need me to orchestrate baths, prepare their meals, and take care of a myriad of other details. [...]

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Booking It (April Update: The Dirty Life)

Booking It is an online book club where we discuss what we’ve read over the past month as well as review a monthly assigned book. This month’s book is  The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball. Thank you for keeping my head in a book. Man, it’s easy to drift toward cereal [...]

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Find a Good Read

Find a good read and boost the richness in your life — and in your kids’ lives, too. Reading a good book can bring such a boost to your everyday — and to that of our kids. I am having a great time watching my littlest ones explore books together. They are both on the [...]

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Truly Debt Free

I remember shortly after we bought our first house, I would lie awake at night fretting about the mortgage. At the time it seemed like a ton of money. And the presence of debt just stressed me out. Years later, we sold that house, moved cross country, bought another, and acquired even more debt. And that [...]

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