Yep. We're homeschooling this year. Like the 'withdrawing the kids, buying textbooks, and going to Homeschool Day at Six Flags' kind of homeschooling.
This was not my plan. But we chose to homeschool because it seemed like the most faith-filled response.
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If we were together, sitting on your couch, and you had your darling newborn swaddled and squishy in your arms, this is what I would share about breastfeeding--while I fold your laundry. But first I'd bring you water and about 3 cookies. In all honesty, breastfeeding has been the hardest thing I have ever done. … Continue reading Letters to a First-Time Mom – Breastfeeding
You don't know what you don't know Baby smell might be the sweetest thing ever. Until it begins to smell like sour milk. When my first baby was a few weeks old, she developed a cheesy aroma. Oh, it was ripe. I swear I was bathing her. Her ears were clean. I wiped up spit-up. … Continue reading Letters to a First Time Mom – Things I Didn’t Know
Here you are with a baby. There's a steep learning curve and you're figuring it out on the job, with less sleep than ever. It is easy to feel like you're drowning. It's easy to think you're failing. And it's easy to feel you're not enough. But I want you to remember you're doing the … Continue reading Letters to a First-Time Mom – When You Feel Like You’re Not Enough
If I could write a letter to myself as a new mom, I would answer so many complaints. Resentment had a strong hold on me for many months, perhaps years, early in my motherhood. So here is my letter to Old Resentful Cindy. "I'm stuck at home with an infant all day every day. I … Continue reading Letters to a First-Time Mom -Don’t Stir Resentment Into Your Coffee
This spring I had my fourth baby. She's fantastic. But after my first and second babies, I struggled immensely with the feeling that my postpartum hormones and emotions were completely out of control and I had no idea what to expect. To be honest, they controlled me. So before I had my third, I did … Continue reading Letters to a First Time Mom – Dealing with Postpartum Hormones
Lately I have taken to listening to the Bible app on my phone. (Reading a "real Bible" is tricky with a toddler. Who knew?) I was recently sweeping the kitchen while listening to Galatians, and I heard it as though God himself was teaching me how to discipline my children--with gentleness. You know how your … Continue reading Discipline with Gentleness – How Relying on God’s Kindness Can Transform Our Children
There was an element of Celebration and Community in all the high points of our month. As I looked at the calendar to jog my memory, I was kind of amazed that we have fit so much into the past four weeks. May is crazy. Camping trip at Vogel State Park The highlight of the … Continue reading Celebrations and Community – May 2018 Update (What I’m Up To Linkup)
Mom groups. They're awesome. They're so helpful. I would have been sunk without the online mom group I joined when I was pregnant with my first 9 years ago. There is nothing like being able to share the joys and miseries of the particular stage you are in at that moment. I have learned a … Continue reading Is Your Mom Group Stealing Your Peace?