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This Blog Is For Mommas

Today’s mommas who want their families to thrive!

Much to the dismay of many mommas, mothering success isn’t achieved through sheer instinct. Like the building of a house, building of a family homelife takes knowledge, skill, understanding, patience, the right tools and ingredients, and plenty of effort.

The good news: I’ve learned tried and tested practices that really do work! My goal is to share what I have learned so you can put into place the things that fit your own family.

My Early Momma Life

I remember all too well the saga of struggle in my early years of motherhood:

Avoiding the mountains of laundry as long as I dared; dragging, exhausted and discouraged, into the kitchen to clear the counter so I could start breakfast; my sinking heart while digging through cupboards for possible dinner ingredients at 7:00 pm; and choking back tears when my toddler’s needs ruined my plans to do something I wanted to do.

So often, sinking into a chair after settling my children into bed for the night, I felt too wiped out to even go into the next room to prepare for sleep. I am fairly confident, sincere-hearted momma, that you may have had similar experiences!

I Struggled and I Learned

There are many qualities that go into the building of a healthy, happy, peaceful family home. The primary ingredient is a solid foundation of commitment to put into practice what God has revealed as being important through his written Word, the Holy Bible.

Success in life really does start with your relationship with God. The Bible defines success as being in God’s favor. In his favor is life! Wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and creativity; these and so much more, all come from God.

Speaking of wisdom, the Bible, in Proverbs 9:10, Psalm 111:10, andJob 28:28, makes it clear that…

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

HINT: This doesn’t mean being fearful, as in, being afraid, trembling in terror, or anything like that.

To have a fear of God in the biblical sense is to respect him highly, acknowledging that he is the sovereign creator, and to recognize the fact that we are each individually accountable to our creator for how we live out the life he has given us.

I believe most people inately want to be the best we can be. The wonderful thing is, God tells us that he wants to give us wisdom! He tells us to simply ask for wisdom, and he will give it. He often gives wisdom by leading us along a path of learning. Along this pathway, we grow wiser as we learn from him how to be the best we can be.

The foundation of any building is the most critical part, even though almost completely hidden once the rest of the building has been completed. In a similar way, the foundations of our lives are built and established through daily doing the things we know will bring us closer to God. The following list of habits, if implemented in your life, will bring you closer to God and help you gain the wisdom needed to build a strong foundation for your life and family home:

• Bible reading
• Daily prayer
• Praising God throughout the day, including singing, thinking, and talking
• Faithful Church attendance.

To complement these habits we need to apply common sense. Using your best judgement, your common sense, is an essential building material in the construction of your happy home.

Some Common Sense Building Materials

For a homelife that is happy and peaceful, we must be:

1. Consistent and constant
2. Flexible, with a healthy sense of humor
3. A role-model, setting an example by being understanding, even while setting clear expectations

Typically, both historically and biblically, it’s been older women who have taught younger women how to care for their family and home. (Read Titus 2: 3-5.) This method of training paved the way for proven homemaking and childraising skills to be passed on to the next generation. Haven’t you found learning something new is much easier when someone explains things, rather than having to figure it all out by trial and error?

Being a God-fearing, Christian grandmother, I offer my lifetime of learning for you to draw from. I’m happy to explain the biblical principles for living and for having a happy family home.

For the record, I’ve always sought to live in a peaceful environment. As a young momma, I earnestly, prayerfully sought ways to make our homelife go more smoothly. By God’s grace, I did! Then, as I became aware of other mom’s battle’s and triumphs, and of them having similar experiences to mine, I recognized that my happy home life wasn’t really a result of it being “my home”, but the result of biblical PRINCIPLES being implemented in each one of our homes.

In your home, you are the leading lady, the one who manages your home and sets the tone for how homelife goes in your home. I respect that you have your own needs and wants, in addition to the responsibilities for all the needs within your sphere of influence in your own household.

My goal is to lighten your load by providing you with tools, guidance, and resources, and by suggesting options you may not have discovered. All in all, it’s up to you, momma, to determine what resources to take advantage of and to find out what really works best for you and your family.

HINT: You’re likely to discover that, sometimes, a certain way of doing things which once worked great, will need to be abandoned for a different approach as your children mature.

Here are some of the resources I plan to use to spice things up for you:

• Family Fun (Music, crafts, experiments, excursions, etc.)
• Stories for inspiration (fictitious and real-life)
• Principles to live by (Biblical and traditional)
• And more

Thank you, momma, for taking time to read my thoughts and perspectives in this post. I believe you have a strong desire to be the best mother and homemaker you can be!

I welcome hearing from you! Did anything you read here resonate with you?