There are lots of ways to diaper a tush. Here is one way a mother of six works it out!
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I really like the diapers, covers, and plain ol’ good service from here, and would highly recommend her business.
Happy is that people whose God is the Lord
There are lots of ways to diaper a tush. Here is one way a mother of six works it out!
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I really like the diapers, covers, and plain ol’ good service from here, and would highly recommend her business.
I can’t sleep. This has been on my mind for a while now and I felt compelled to respond to the horrific events that have come about from the needless death of not one, but two, children. I feel just sick. Here is the letter I wrote and sent tonight via email. I thought it proper for me to write to you, also….
Good evening, friends,
I have been in real angst over the death of a child recently from a parent who claimed to follow the To Train Up a Child book. This book was a real help to me in helping me learn to parent my children and because of that, I have bought multiple copies and I believe I gave one to you. This review was the most humble and gracious one I have read regarding the incident(s) and put into words my current thinking about this book, and that is why I am forwarding it to you for your consideration. http://www.tina.thejobes.com/2010/03/to-train-up-a-child-book-review/
PLEASE know that it is IMPOSSIBLE to be 100% consistent in just about anything, especially child training. We’re just mommies trying to find our way in parenting children that change from one year to the next (or one minute to the next) and the most important thing we can do during that is to LISTEN TO THE LORD and to READ OUR BIBLES. There *is* NO perfect method/book/author/way to raise up children that is fail-proof. We all need the tender mercies of the Lord to direct our paths each and every single day. Mommying ought to be and I believe CAN be a joy-filled endeavor, but trials ARE going to be a part of the journey and there WILL be tears to go along with it at times (or is that just me?;)
Friend, just know I love you and know you are doing the best that you can. Please don’t ever hold up any standard higher than what Jesus reveals to you through His Word. He WILL guide you and teach you and love you and…yes, discipline you. We all need that. Stay in the Word, stay in prayer, stay in fellowship with the saints. Repent where needed and forgive 70 times 7. Know that God Himself gave you your children not just for their own good, but for yours as well.
I do pray for these precious families, including the Pearls. What a heartbreak, all around.
With love
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Sometimes it is really hard to take every thought captive (listen to Part One) or to get working on what is needed or required (listen to Part Two). Sometimes, our discouragement grows because we just are not as healthy as we could be…so we feel like we’re physically and/or mentally dragging. Let’s investigate various aspects of how taking better care of ourselves might bolster our courage.
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Health-y verses:
Read your Bible day AND night!
Psalms 1:1-3 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
You can download and listen to a free audio Bible here. And there is an excellent article on how (why and when) to read the Bible here.
Hope in God!
Psalms 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Guard your heart!
Proverbs 3:1-8 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Seek wisdom!
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Watch yer mouth!
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Guard who you’re learning from!
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Guard your reading/listening habits!
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pray!
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Discern fad diets/health fixes!
Acts 27:34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Healthy habits
* Drink enough water. If I needed a water filter, this is where I would shop for one:
* Dump the soda pop
* Take a good quality supplement. I appreciate and trust this company, but there are others that are also good.
* Eat a variety of wholesome food. Start learning!
* Get any needed medical testing done: thyroid/estrogen/iron levels; allergy testing, etc.
* Exercise
If you want to join me 🙂
* Have babies
This article has great references, but online this is the only place I could find it. Too bad this blogger did not include the medical journal references.
* Postpartum depression
* Post-abortion help
Have a healthy week!
Mothering and homemaking are hard work, so….work hard!
The loudest voices either tell us that our work at home is not of value or that if we succeed at any of it, we’re just Type A perfectionists. Put away feminist thought AND work hard to serve your family. Learning something new and accomplishing your goals are smart weapons in battling discouragement.
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Love and serve your family without apology.
Philippians 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Keep learning! Keep going forward! Keep your hand to the plow! Yes, you can learn to respect your husband, keep house, garden, raise children, butcher chickens 🙂 etc……
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 9:10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope…
“Contemporary feminism is grounded on Gilman’s belief that a distorted nature characterizes those women who prefer homemaking and child-rearing to marching through those open gates into the workplace.”
Carolyn Graglia
Can the Traditional Family Survive Feminism?
Blessings,
Let’s talk about discouragement, because it’s been in far too plenty of a supply these days. Grab some tea, listen in on A Happy Home’s first podcast*, and ponder changing the eyewear.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
–Helen Keller
“What you see in the circumstances around you is dependent upon the lens that make up the glasses upon your face.”
Three sets of glasses to try on:
1. The glasses of opportunity
“Difficulties are opportunities for our growth and sanctification, not enemies nor proof of our failures.”
2. The glasses of vision
“This, too, shall pass.”
3. The glasses of gratitude
“The more we look for things to be grateful for, the more our joy grows.”
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
–John Lubbock
Lamentations 3:22-3 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Psalms 77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Psalms 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose Godis the LORD.
* What’s a podcast? Click here for a very clear explanation, given by my very marvelous husband.