I sat outside the head doctor’s office praying, and here’s where my thoughts went: “Lord, help this woman be in a good mood; give Vitaliy favor with her. Have her sign Vitaliy’s paper with no issues. . . . God, honor Vitaliy before this doctor; he is fathering a fatherless boy; he is imaging You by becoming [...]
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fathering the fatherless
Posted in Parenting, adopting Paul, my beloved, special things on October 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
cosleeping
Posted in Charis Childbirth, Parenting, breastfeeding, cosleeping on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Vitaliy and I have co-slept with our kids for going on five years now–that is, as long as we’ve had them! I’ve enjoyed the rest, closenss, and sweet times that bedsharing provides. Sure, there are some botherations, but every place of child-sleep has those.
Science is more and more returning us to cosleeping. There are right [...]
i could give birth every day; it’s the next 18 years that’s the challenge!
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the book i’m presenting in our weekly mommy group: How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell.
The thesis of this book is that parents do truly love their kids, but parents need to learn how to express this love in a way that KIDS can feel and understand it.
Of course, my child [...]
Friday
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I feel a little guilty, like I’ve been running around all week and not focusing as much as I could on the girls. I’ve spent some time with them, but not really being with them fully–always thinking about doing the next thing, etc.
So, Friday will be focus-on-girls day and slowly clean the house so it’s [...]
my 4-year-old
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TG, my wunnerful, attachment-parenting friend, sent me a box of books at my plea for parenting help, and in that box is a simple series of thin books, each one about a year of child development. When Skyla turned four, I started searching for this, and I found it last night in my bookshelf:
These books allay [...]
First-Time obedience & grace-based parenting
Posted in Parenting, mommyness on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found this mom’s testimony today, and it mirrors my own on several points!
Her words about first time obedience.
Great site. Spend some time there. I have learned a lot from grace-based parenting, and I am still learning!
courage for moms
Posted in Parenting, mommyness on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I browse Wendy’s site every so often, and today there’s a bit from a post that I want to comment on. Did you ever think you were a “good” person . . . and then you 1) got married and 2) had children?
Being a mother can be very discouraging because we have so many opportunities to sin [...]
stuffed mushrooms
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is currently one of the girls’ favorite books. We read it daily.
In this book, Chef Truffles comes to the palace to give a cooking lesson. His first lesson is making stuffed mushrooms.
So Skyla, Vika, and I (ahem) made stuffed mushrooms for dinner tonight. They liked them! I liked them. Vitaliy liked them but said [...]
parenting traps & using consequences
Posted in Parenting, mommyness on August 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
TG sent me Jane Nelson’s Positive Discipline, and I was recently reading chapter 5 about Natural and Logical Consequences. She’s not a believer, to my knowledge, but some of her insights are very convicting to me as a parent. Consider some of her thoughts:
Have you ever wondered what children are thinking about when they are [...]
obedience
Posted in Parenting, mommyness on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Been thinking about this some more.
As children of God, when we disobey, we always lose something. We may not feel punished directly, we may not even see direct consequences, but disobedience harms (or hinders?) our relationship with God. It subtracts from our intimacy with Him.
I think it also often takes away a blessing or a [...]
