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12 Fun Activity Ideas For Kids While Mom Works (No Screens!)
Are you at home with your kids? Do you need to work? Do you want your kids engaged in meaningful and fun activities, rather than sitting in front of screens? Yes! Yes! Yes! That’s me 100% right now. Today I’m going to share with you some fun activity ideas for kids, which are currently working well in my own life as a busy mum. I have three kids – ages 7, 8 and 10 – and I work from home as an online English teacher and writer. My kids go to state school in the country we live in, but they’re home for months in the holiday periods, and so…
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Back To School Christian Mom Morning Routine
Are the kids going back to school and you want to get back into a good morning routine? I’m here to give you some ideas to help get you started with your own routine! Before we start though, I want to clarify that I’m not going to be including a schedule here. The key to a routine is to follow an order of practices rather than a set schedule. This is because schedules vary a lot from individual to individual and family to family. Another thing to note is that while this routine includes several elements that are helpful in my own morning routine, these can easily be adapted to…
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Cast Your Burdens On Him
Focus verse “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.” Psalm 55:2 Devotion There are times in our life when our struggles and pain are connected to the burdens we are carrying. It’s not just our external circumstances, but also our fears about the future. The good news is that when we cast our burdens on the Lord, He promises to sustain us. Indeed, that’s been my experience. It’s been in my moments of greatest weakness when I’ve most cried out to God, that I’ve received deep revelation of who He is and experienced His peace. To illustrate,…
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Follow Jesus Wherever He Leads
Hi mama! Today, I’m sharing a brief reflection on what it’s like to follow Jesus when we go through struggles and confusing situations. Today’s reflection is based on Matthew 16:24 where Jesus explains the concept of discipleship to His followers. “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24 Reflection A true disciple of Jesus actively chooses to keep following her Rabbi, wherever He goes. Even when she can’t see where He’s taking her. Through dark and windy roads. Up hills and down mountains. Through valleys. Being a disciple is about learning to trust. Unclenching fists. Relinquishing control. Releasing expectations.…
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How To Slow Down With Jesus
Hi mama! Today I’m sharing an article on how we can slow down with Jesus, as this is something that is a struggle for us as 21st century mums. First things first: How are you today? Busy? Restless? Does it seem that each year that passes time goes more quickly than the year before? That each day that passes, you seem to accumulate more responsibilities, more pressures, more burdens? Perhaps you miss those days when you had fewer things on your plate, life was slower, and you could enjoy the simple joys of life. Whether that was swimming for hours on hot summer days. Whether that was playing in a…
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7 Bible Verses To Help You Step Out In Faith
In today’s post, I’m sharing 7 Bible Verses to help you step out in faith when God is calling you to leave your comfort zone. When we sense God calling us to do something, it’s really important we use spiritual discernment and make sure we’re really hearing from Him. Yet, even when we know something is God’s will, we can often falter in our faith. And so, we need Scripture that will encourage us to be obedient to God’s will, no matter what we’re feeling. So, let’s look at 7 lovely Bible verses that will help us step out in faith and be obedient to God’s will. 7 Bible Verses…
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Feeling Restless? Discover How To Find Contentment In God!
Hi mama! Today I’m sharing an article I wrote on finding contentment in God. In this article, I share the reason we’re often restless, why it’s important to find contentment in God and how we can find contentment in God. When we do, we’ll experience God’s rest instead of restlessness. God’s peace instead of turmoil. God’s joy instead of disappointment. Why We’re Restless And Discontent Discontent is rooted in desire. We feel discontent when there is an unmet desire within us. Yet, the problem with discontent is not desire, but disordered desire. It’s when we crave what cannot satisfy, instead of turning to the only One who can. It’s when…
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5 Self-Care Ideas For Christian Mamas
Today I’m sharing 5 simple self-care tips for Christians moms. As busy and weary mamas, it’s so easy to let ourselves get into a cycle of reactive living where we’re not stewarding our bodies or even our relationship with God. Instead, we spend our free time, scrolling our phones, eating chocolate in the bathroom, or zoning out in front of the TV when our kids are in bed. (Guilty as charged!) As a reaction to this, influencers on social media will tell us we need to look after ourselves by spending a day at the spa, getting our nails done, or buying some new clothes. Now I’m not saying any…
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7 Christian Morning Routine Ideas To Help You Focus On Jesus
Looking to start a good Christian morning routine? Trying to tweak the routine you’re on now? If so, I pray this article will bless you. 🙂 In this article, I’m sharing what a morning routine is, why it’s important to have a Jesus-focused morning routine, and seven Christian morning routine ideas. (With the bonus that none of them require screens!) So, let’s get into it: What is a morning routine? It might surprise you when I say this, but… we all have a morning routine! While we don’t all do certain activities in the same order, most of us do certain things every morning – toilet, hygiene, breakfast and/or morning…
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What’s Really Wrong With The Mommy Self-Care Movement
Mommy self-care good or bad? Well motherhood is hard. Rewarding but hard. From interrupted sleep to discipline issues, as moms sometimes we just want to get away from it all. The world offers us a myriad of solutions: a day at the spa, a visit to the nail salon, a hip new diet, or a glass of wine and a Netflix series. In other words, the world tells us that what we need to have energy and love our children well is to practise self-care. We must love ourselves first, before we can love others. We must place the oxygen mask on ourselves before we can help our kids with…
